BOLSHOI BALLET PIROUETTES AWAY WITH THREE CRITICS' CHOICE DANCE AWARDS
Posted on 25 January 2011
Winners of the 11th Critics’ Circle Dance Awards have been announced at Sadler’s Wells in London. The Bolshoi Ballet won three awards.
The Bolshoi Ballet won three prizes at the 11th Critics’ Circle Dance Awards - Best Foreign Dance Company and awards for its star dancers, Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova.
Rambert Dance was named best company and had Pieter Symonds win the Best Female Performance (Modern) section.
The ceremony honoured Alistair Spalding, the venue’s chief executive, with the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement. Meanwhile, author Jann Parry also had an outstanding achievement award for her biography of Sir Kenneth MacMillan.
The full list of Critics’ Circle Dance Awards are:
De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement - Jann Parry, Alistair Spalding
Outstanding Female Performance (Classical) - Martha Leebolt (Northern Ballet)
Outstanding Male Performance (Modern) - Daniel Proietto, for work with Russell Maliphant company
Best Foreign Dance Company - The Bolshoi Ballet
Best Classical Choreography - Liam Scarlett for Asphodel Meadows by the Royal Ballet
Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) - Pieter Symonds, Rambert Dance
Outstanding Male Performance (Classical) - Vadim Muntagirov, English National Ballet
Best Modern Choreography - Russell Maliphant for Afterlight
Jane Attenborough Dance UK Industry Award - Gill Clarke MBE
Best Female Dancer - Natalia Osipova, the Bolshoi Ballet
Outstanding Company - Rambert Dance
The Dancing Times Award for Best Male Dancer - Ivan Vasilev, the Bolshoi Ballet
