Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.

Laurence Olivier Award
for Best New Dance Production
Awarded forBest New Dance Production
Location England
Presented bySociety of London Theatre
First awarded1983
Currently held byLa Ruta (2024)
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This award was first presented in 1983, as Outstanding New Dance Production of the Year. After the 1985 presentation, the award was set aside from 1986 to 1992, returning in 1993 under its current name.

Winners and nominees

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1980s

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Year Production Company
1983
Requiem The Royal Ballet
Glass Pieces New York City Ballet
The Nightingale Royal Opera
Nijinsky the Fool Lindsay Kemp
1984
Giselle Dance Theatre of Harlem
Consort Lessons The Royal Ballet
Intimate Pages Ballet Rambert
Metamorphosis Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
1985
Pictures Merce Cunningham
Romeo and Juliet London Festival Ballet
The Sons of Horus The Royal Ballet
The Wand of Youth Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

1990s

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Year Production Company
1993
The Judas Tree The Royal Ballet
Catalyst The Australian Ballet
Les Patineurs, The Witch Boy and Donizetti Variations London City Ballet
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues Rambert Dance Company
1994
Choreartium Birmingham Royal Ballet
Herman Schmerman The Royal Ballet
Nutcracker! Adventures in Motion Pictures
Romeo and Juliet Birmingham Royal Ballet
1995
Fearful Symmetries The Royal Ballet
Hommage Aux Ballets Russes Le Ballet Preljocaj
The Nutcracker Birmingham Royal Ballet
Suenos Flamencos Ballet Cristina Hoyos
1996
Swan Lake Adventures in Motion Pictures
Saints and Shadows Arc Dance Company
SH-BOOM 10 Dancers Ensemble
Who Cares? Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
1997
Cinderella English National Ballet
Alice in Wonderland English National Ballet
Carmina Burana Birmingham Royal Ballet
1998
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato Mark Morris Dance Group, English National Opera in association with Dance Umbrella
The Nutcracker Sweeties Birmingham Royal Ballet
Swan Lake English National Ballet
1999
Enemy in the Figure Ballett Frankfurt
The Man with a Moustache and Room of Cooks City of London Ballet and The Royal Ballet
We Set Out Early...Visibility was Poor Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

2000s

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Year Production Company
2000
Symphony of Psalms Nederlands Dans Theater I
Sandpiper Ballet San Francisco Ballet
The Cage San Francisco Ballet
Viktor Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal
2001
Le Jardin Io Io Ito Ito Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu
Indigo Rose NDT II
Mellantid NDT II
Mozartina Zurich Ballet
2002
Hibiki Sankai Juku
Eidos: Telos Ballett Frankfurt
Live Dutch National Ballet
Onegin The Royal Ballet
2003
Polyphonia Danses Concertantes
Rain(in French) Rosas
Rome and Jewels Rennie Harris Puremovement
Tryst The Royal Ballet
2004
Broken Fall George Piper Dances in association with The Royal Opera
Dream Play Nederlands Dans Theater II
Mesmerics George Piper Dances
Promethean Fire Paul Taylor Dance Company
2005
Swamp Rambert Dance Company
A Midsummer Night's Dream Northern Ballet Theatre
Milagros Royal New Zealand Ballet
Romeo and Juliet Royal New Zealand Ballet
2006
PUSH Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant
Constant Speed Rambert Dance Company
Giselle Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
Zero Degrees Akram Khan/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Antony Gormley/Nitin Sawhney
2007
Chroma The Royal Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty The Royal Ballet
Fuji Musume and Kasane Kabuki
DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse The Royal Ballet
2008
Jewels The Royal Ballet
The Bull Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
Mozart Dances Mark Morris Dance Group
The Three Musketeers Northern Ballet Theatre
2009
Café Müller and The Rite of Spring Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Impressing the Czar Royal Ballet of Flanders
Infra The Royal Ballet
To Be Straight with You DV8 Physical Theatre

2010s

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Year Production Company
2010
Goldberg The Brandstrup/Rojo Project
Afterlight Russell Maliphant
E=MC² Birmingham Royal Ballet
A Linha Curva Rambert Dance Company
The Rite of Spring Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
2011
Babel (Words) Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet
Mambo 3XX1 Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
Cinderella New Adventures
2012
DESH Akram Khan Company
Gardenia Les Ballets C de la B
The Metamorphosis Arthur Pita
Some Like It Hip Hop ZooNation
2013
Aeternum The Royal Ballet
Cacti Nederlands Dans Theater II
A Streetcar Named Desire Scottish Ballet
2014
Puz/zle Eastman - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Sadler's Wells
Barbican Britten: Phaedra Richard Alston Dance Company and Britten Sinfonia
What's Become of You? (Questcequetudeviens?) Aurélien Bory and Stéphanie Fuster
2015
32 rue Vandenbranden Peeping Tom
Juliet and Romeo Royal Swedish Ballet
Tabac Rouge La Compagnie du Hanneton/James Thierrée
2016
Woolf Works Wayne McGregor for The Royal Ballet
He Who Falls (Celui Qui Tombe) Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois
Roméo et Juliette Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
2017
Betroffenheit Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young for Sadler's Wells
Blak Whyte Gray Boy Blue Entertainment
Giselle Akram Khan and English National Ballet
My Mother, My Dog, and CLOWNS! Michael Clark
2018
Flight Pattern Crystal Pite
Goat Ben Duke for Rambert Dance Company
Grand Finale Hofesh Shechter
Trees Of Codes Wayne McGregor and the Paris Opera Ballet
2019
Blkdog Botis Seva
16 + A Room/Solo Echo/Bill Ballet British Columbia
Playlist (Track 1, 2) William Forsythe
The Unknown Soldier Alastair Marriott

2020s

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Year Production Company
2020
Ingome Mthuthuzeli November and Ballet Black
La Fiesta Israel Galván
Mám Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa
Vessel Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa
2021 Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic[A]
2022[A]
Revisor Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young / Kidd Pivot
Draw From Within Wim Vandekeybus - Rambert Dance Company
Transverse Orientation Dimitris Papaioannou
2023
Traplord Ivan Michael Blackstock
Light of Passage Crystal Pite for The Royal Ballet
Pasionaria La Veronal
Triptych (The Missing Door, The Lost Room, and the Hidden Floor) Peeping Tom
2024
La Ruta Gabriela Carrizo, part of Nederlands Dans Theater - NDT1
Broken Chord Gregory Maqoma & Thuthuka Sibisi
The Rite of Spring Seeta Patel
Time Spell Michelle Dorrance, Jillian Meyers & Tiler Peck, part of Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends
  1. ^ a b Due to late March 2020[1] to late July 2021[2] closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022[3]


References

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  1. ^ Johnson, The Rt Hon Boris, MP (23 March 2020). Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 23 March 2020 [transcript] (Speech). Prime Minister's Televised Speech to the United Kingdom. www.gov.uk. London, UK. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2022. From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home.{{cite speech}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ McPhee, Ryan (14 June 2021). "U.K. Postpones Reopening Roadmap; West End Theatres Will No Longer Reopen in Full in June". Playbill. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2022. Step 4 of the roadmap will allow productions to play without capacity restrictions. June 21 was the goal; now, the government is eyeing July 19.
  3. ^ Thomas, Sophie (8 March 2022). "Everything you need to know about the Olivier Awards". londontheatre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022. Any new production that opened between 19 Feb. 2020 to 22 Feb. 2022 are eligible for categories in the 2022 Olivier Awards. With two years worth of shows set for honours in one year's ceremony, the 2022 Olivier Awards will prove tougher competition than before.
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