Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work
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{{Infobox award
| name = Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work
| awarded_for =
| presenter = Live Performance Australia
| country = Australia
| year = 2001
| holder = Sheoak, Bangarra Dance Theatre (2016)
| website = {{URL|http://www.helpmannawards.com.au}}
}}
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.{{cite news|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/default.aspx?s=haabout |title=About |accessdate=2011-10-03 |work=Helpmann Awards |publisher=Live Performance Australia |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112191332/http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/default.aspx?s=haabout |archivedate=12 January 2012 |df=dmy-all }} 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From 2017, the award was superseded by separate Helpmann award categories for Best Ballet and Best Dance Production.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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- Source:{{cite news|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/default.aspx?s=nominees |title=Nominees |accessdate=2011-10-03 |work=Helpmann Awards |publisher=Live Performance Australia |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206092032/http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/default.aspx?s=nominees |archivedate=6 December 2008 |df=dmy-all }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com/2001nominees.html|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030717140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24614/20030718-0000/www.helpmannawards.com/2001nominees.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 July 2003|title=Australian Web Archive 2001 Helpmann Awards Nominees |publisher=Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive |accessdate=4 October 2011}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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! width="5%" | Year ! width="40%" | Title ! width="50%" | Production company(ies) |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2001 (1st) |
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| Skin |
| Body of Work - A Retrospective |
| Hydra |
| Coppelia |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2002 (2nd) |
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| Requiem |
| Corroboree |
| Eidos:Telos (Ballett Frankfurt) |
| Tivoli |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2003 (3rd) |
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| The Age of Unbeauty |
| Ellipse |
| Walkabout |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2004 (4th) |
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| Bush |
| 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 |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2005 (5th) |
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| Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Opera House |
| Already Elsewhere |
| Mr. B - A Tribute to George Balanchine |
| Shades of Gray |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2006 (6th) |
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| Jiri |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 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 |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2007 (7th) |
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| Structure & Sadness |
| Lawn |
| Monumental
| Melbourne International Arts Festival and Ros Warby |
| zero degrees
| Les Ballets C. De La B. and Akram Khan Company presented by Sydney Festival |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2008 (8th) |
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| Glow | Chunky Move presented by Melbourne Festival |
| Nutcracker |
| 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 |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2009 (9th) |
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| Mathinna |
| Firebird |
| Two Faced Bastard |
| we unfold |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2010 (10th) |
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| FIRE |
| Dyad 1929 |
| Harakiri - a rite |
| KORPER |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2011 (11th) |
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| Where the Heart Is | Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre |
| Sutra |
| Amplification
| BalletLab and Phillip Adams (with C.U.B Malthouse) |
| Vertical Road |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2012 (12th) |
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| 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 |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2013 (13th) |
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| TERRAIN |
| Black Project 1 & 2
| Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House & Insite Arts |
| Keep Everything |
| Cacti |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2014 (14th) |
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| Chroma |
| 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 |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2015 (15th) |
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| Frame of Mind |
| MEETING
| Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House and Insite Arts |
| Motion Picture
| Lucy Guerin Inc in association with Arts House |
| precipice
| Rachel Arianne Ogle |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2016 (16th) |
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| Sheoak |
| Cockfight
| Performing Lines and The Farm |
| Habitus |
| Spectra |
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.helpmannawards.com.au The official Helpmann Awards website]
{{Helpmann Awards}}