The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of the "world-class status of 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.
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
1980s 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 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 Year Production Company 2000 Symphony of Psalms Nederlands Dans Theater I Sandpiper Ballet San Francisco Ballet The Cage San Francisco Ballet Viktor Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch 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 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 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 Clark2018Flight PatternCrystal PiteGoatBen Duke for Rambert Dance CompanyGrand FinaleHofesh ShechterTrees Of CodesWayne McGregor and the Paris Opera Ballet2019BlkdogBotis Seva16 + A Room/Solo Echo/BillBallet British ColumbiaPlaylist (Track 1, 2)William ForsytheThe Unknown SoldierAlastair Marriott
2020s Year Production Company2020IngomeMthuthuzeli November and Ballet BlackLa FiestaIsrael GalvánMám Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ DaṁsaVesselDamien Jalet and Kohei Nawa 2021 Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic2022RevisorCrystal Pite and Jonathon Young / Kidd PivotDraw From WithinWim Vandekeybus - Rambert Dance CompanyTransverse OrientationDimitris Papaioannou2023TraplordIvan Michael BlackstockLight of PassageCrystal Pite for The Royal BalletPasionariaLa VeronalTriptych (The Missing Door, The Lost Room, and the Hidden Floor)Peeping Tom2024La RutaGabriela Carrizo, part of Nederlands Dans Theater - NDT1Broken ChordGregory Maqoma & Thuthuka SibisiThe Rite of SpringSeeta PatelTime SpellMichelle Dorrance, Jillian Meyers & Tiler Peck, part of Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends2025Assembly HallKidd Pivot, Crystal Pite & Jonathon YoungFrontiers: Choreographers of Canada - Pite/Kudelka/PortnerThe National Ballet of CanadaTheatre of DreamsHofesh Shechter CompanyAn Untitled LoveA.I.M by Kyle Abraham
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