Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
For choreography created by or for a Bay Area individual or company that had its Bay Area premiere during the period of eligibility.

2010 (2008-2009 season)

• Scott Wells -What Men Want performed by Scott Wells & Dancers

2009 (2007-2008 season)

• Joe Goode – the beauty that was mine/through the middle without stopping, AXIS Dance Company

2008 (2006-2007 season)

• Under the Radar team with direction by Jess Curtis — Under the Radar

2007 (2005-2006 season)

• Chris Black and Ken James - The Adventures of Cunning and Guile, Chris Black/POTRZEBIE & Ken James

2006 (2004-2005 season)

• SANDRA FEUSI and SAM PAYNE, with GIULIANO PEPARINI — Vertical Tango, New Pickle Circus, at Palace of Fine Arts

2005 (2003-2004 season)

• N’Deye N’Diaya Gueye – Kaolack and Thie Bou Dienne, Thiosanne Africa Senegalese Dance Company
• Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw – Such Tiny Danger, Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw
• Scott Wells – @848, Scott Wells & Dancers

2004 (2002-2003 season)

• Robert Moses, The Soft Sweet Smell of Firm Warm Things, for Robert Moses’ Kin, at the Cowell Theater

2003 (2001-2002 season)

• Michael Lowe, Bamboo, for Oakland Ballet

2002 (2000-2001 season)

• Val Caniparoli, Death of a Moth, for San Francisco Ballet

2001 (1999-2000 season)

• Bill T. Jones, Fantasy in C Major, for Axis Dance Company
• Yuri Possokhov, Magrittomania, for San Francisco Ballet

2000 (1998-1999 season)

• Brenda Way, Investigating Grace, ODC/San Francisco

1999 (1997-1998 season)

• Keith Hennessy, Jules Beckman, and Jess Curtis, Ice/Car/Cage, SF Gay and Lesbian Dance Festival

1998 (1996-1997 season)

• Enrico Labayen, Cloth and Puirt A Beul, The Lab Projekt, USA

1997 (1995-1996 season)

• Julia Adam, 13 Lullabyes

1996 (1994-1995 season)

• Lily Cai and Deborah Vaughan, Common Ground, Dimensions Dance Theater and Lily Cai Chinese Dance

1995 (1993-1994 season)

• Alonzo King, Ocean, Lines Contemporary Ballet

1994 (1992-1993 season)

• Sara Shelton Mann, Mira Cycle II, Contraband
• KT Nelson, River, ODC/SF

1993 (1991-1992 season)

• Liz Ozol, The Propaganda Series — Conception

1992 (1990-1991 season)

• Idriss Ackamoor, Bill T. Jones, and Rhodessa Jones, Perfect Courage
• Margaret Jenkins, Age Of Unrest

1991 (1989-1990 season)

• Joe Goode, Disaster Series

1990 (1988-1989)

• Della Davidson, Tongues and Angels and Clay

1989 (1987-1988 season)

• Ellen Bromberg, The Black Dress
• James Kudelka, Dreams Of Harmony, commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet

1988 (1986-1987 season)

• Val Caniparoli, Aubade, San Francisco Ballet
• Margaret Jenkins, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s ‘86-’87 season
• Brenda Way, Constant Reminders, ODC/San Francisco