Australian Dance Awards
Award for services to dance
To acknowledge outstanding services by ancillary dance professionals
including, but not limited to, the following areas: musical composition,
lighting design, photography, writing, administration, criticism,
historical
research, community service, health and injury prevention
etc.
First awarded: 1997
2008
Dally Messenger & Karen van Ulzen for their important contribution to Australian dance through one of the world’s best dance magazines, Dance Australia—a publication which enables dialogue and communication, and provides information and promotion that is invaluable to the dance sector. -
2006
Hilary Crampton for her extensive and rigorous engagement with local and international
dance practice as a writer, teacher, administrator and tireless dance
advocate over 40 years, and for her research interests in the area
of arts and cultural policy, and the ways in which policy influences
the organisation of the artistic field.
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2005
Mark Gordon As Director of the Australian Choreographic Centre
from 1996 – 2007, he has seen the centre offer fellowships and
residencies to young and emerging choreographers, the formation of
Quantum Leap Youth Choreographic Ensemble and support for returning
tertiary dance students. Mark was executive officer of Ausdance Victoria
for ten years prior to moving to Canberra.
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2003
Michelle Potter
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2002
Ian McRae
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2001
Lucette Aldous, a former ballerina with the Ballet Rambert, The Royal Ballet and The
Australian Ballet, Lucette Aldous is an inspirational teacher and mentor
to students at the Western Australian
Academy of Performing Arts in Perth where she now teaches.
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2000
Julie Dyson National Executive Officer of the Australian Dance Council—Ausdance.
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1999
Kristian Fredrikson has had a long, distinguished career as a costume designer, who is well known
for his stunning designs for dance. He has designed for Australia's
leading dance companies including The Australian Ballet and Sydney
Dance Company.
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1998
Tony Geeves Author of Safe Dance I and II
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1997
Jill Sykes AM Dance writer of the Sydney Morning Herald
Dally Messenger Founder of Dance Australia
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