Australian Dance Awards
Lifetime achievement award
To acknowledge past achievements and/or long time serivice to dance/dancers.
First awarded: 1997
2008
Paul Hammond. For fifteen years Paul served The Australian Ballet as an archivist and he remains a panel member for the Victorian Arts Centre Trust’s Green Room Awards.
In January this year Paul was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the development and promotion of dance, particularly ballet, as a performer, choreographer and teacher.
2006
Graeme Murphy AM and Janet Vernon AM
For 30 years of sustained and creative exploration in choreography,
nurturing exciting collaborations between dance, theatre, opera,
design, music and film. For their choreographic genius, tireless
commitment to artistic excellence and passionate leadership of Sydney
Dance Company, and for establishing an international reputation for
Australian dance abroad. 2005
Kathryn Lowe
(1938 – 2005) was a dynamic and influential advocate for Australian
dance, especially in the 1980s when a number of new companies were
being established. As Dance Officer at the Australia Council she opened
up new opportunities for the development of artists, companies and
vital infrastructure which is still in place. She died in 2005 in her
home town of Phoenix, Arizona. 2004
Julie Dyson AM has been the National Executive Officer of Ausdance
since the Australia Council began funding the organisation in 1985. She has also initiated innovative partnership arrangements
to promote and support contemporary dance and professional dancers
with organisations outside the dance community. In 1994 Julie received the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for Administration. 2003
Cheryl Stock -
2002
Meryl Tankard
2001
Shirley McKechnie OAM is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts. Shirley was a pioneer of contemporary dance in Australia and has received numerous awards in recognition of her service to dance. 2000
Kira Bousloff OAM 1999
Keith Bain OAM, dancer, teacher and choreographer and a member
of the Bodenwiesser Company. Over five decades he has held important offices in Ausdance,
the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts and
has been head of Movement Studies at NIDA, where he still teaches. Keith
founded the Dancer's Picnic, which in 1997 became the Australian Dance Awards
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1998
Dame Margaret Scott OBE
Valrene Tweedie OAM
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1997
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM and Laurel Martyn OBE
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