The Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work was a dance award presented by Live Performance Australia at the annual Helpmann Awards from 2001 to 2016. The Helpmann Awards are Australia's national awards for live performance.
From 2017, the award was superseded by separate Helpmann award categories for Best Ballet and Best Dance Production.
Indigenous contemporary dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre received the award six times, and The Australian Ballet won it four times.
Winners and nominees
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Year Title Production company(ies) 2001(1st) Skin Bangarra Dance Theatre Body of Work - A Retrospective Sydney Dance Company Hydra Chunky Move Coppelia West Australian Ballet 2002(2nd) Requiem Australian Ballet & State Opera of South Australia Corroboree Bangarra Dance Theatre Eidos:Telos (Ballett Frankfurt) Melbourne Festival Tivoli Australian Ballet & Sydney Dance Company 2003(3rd) Swan Lake The Australian Ballet The Age of Unbeauty Australian Dance Theatre Ellipse Sydney Dance Company Walkabout Bangarra Dance Theatre 2004(4th) Bush Bangarra Dance Theatre Great Piper Dances Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Opera House Held Australian Dance Theatre in association with Adelaide Bank 2004 Festival of Arts and Anchorage Concert Association (Alaska) Underland Sydney Dance Company 2005(5th) Shen Wei Dance Arts Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Opera House Already Elsewhere Sydney Festival Mr. B - A Tribute to George Balanchine The Australian Ballet Shades of Gray Sydney Dance Company 2006(6th) Jiri The Australian Ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream West Australian Ballet An Evening of Works by Russell Maliphant George Piper Dances presented by Sydney Festival I Want to Dance Better at Parties Chunky Move presented by Sydney Festival 2007(7th) Structure & Sadness Lucy Guerin Company Lawn Brisbane Powerhouse Monumental Melbourne International Arts Festival and Ros Warby zero degrees Les Ballets C. De La B. and Akram Khan Company presented by Sydney Festival 2008(8th) Glow Chunky Move presented by Melbourne Festival Nutcracker The Australian Ballet Roadkill Brisbane Powerhouse and Dancenorth choreographed by Splintergroup Sacred Monsters Akram Khan Co. presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts 2008, Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Powerhouse 2009(9th) Mathinna Bangarra Dance Theatre Firebird The Australian Ballet Two Faced Bastard Melbourne International Arts Festival and Chunky Move we unfold Sydney Dance Company 2010(10th) FIRE Bangarra Dance Theatre Dyad 1929 The Australian Ballet Harakiri - a rite STRUT dance KORPER Melbourne International Arts Festival and Sasha Waltz 2011(11th) Where the Heart Is Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre Sutra Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Festival Amplification BalletLab and Phillip Adams (with C.U.B Malthouse) Vertical Road Melbourne Festival and Akram Khan Company 2012(12th) Can We Talk About This? Presented by DV8 Theatre and Sydney Opera House. Co-produced by Theatre de la Ville and Festival d'Automne Paris, National Theatre of Great Britain and Dansens Hus Stockholm Anatomy of an Afternoon Martin del Amo, Performing Lines and Sydney Festival Aviary: A Suite for the Bird Phillip Adams BalletLab in Melbourne Festival 2011 MASS Dancenorth 2013(13th) TERRAIN Bangarra Dance Theatre Black Project 1 & 2 Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House & Insite Arts Keep Everything Chunky Move Cacti Sydney Dance Company 2014(14th) Chroma The Australian Ballet Ballet at the Quarry: Radio and Juliet West Australian Ballet presented in association with Perth International Arts Festival Bolshoi Ballet – The Bright Stream Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Tourism and Events Queensland Sadeh21 Batsheva Dance Company, Adelaide Festival and Perth International Arts Festival 2015(15th) Frame of Mind Sydney Dance Company MEETING Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House and Insite Arts Motion Picture Lucy Guerin Inc in association with Arts House precipice Rachel Arianne Ogle 2016(16th) Sheoak Bangarra Dance Theatre Cockfight Performing Lines and The Farm Habitus Australian Dance Theatre Spectra Dancenorth
Best Ballet
See also Dance in Australia
References
External links The official Helpmann Awards website