Outstanding Achievement in Performance — Ensemble
For performances(s) by a group of two or more Bay Area individuals, but fewer than an entire company, during the period of eligibility. Category may include performances in both old and new work.

This category was introduced for the 1996-1997 season.

2010 (2008-2009 Season)

• Davit Karapetyan, Ivan Popov, Sarah Van Patten, Vanessa Zahorian – Stravinsky Violin Concerto, San Francisco Ballet

2009 (2007-2008 Season)

• Rodney Bell, Sonsheree Giles – To Color Me Different, AXIS Dance Company, 2008 WestWave Dance Festival
• Laurel Keen, Bret Conway – Rasa, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet

2008 (2006-2007 Season)

• Danny Luong and Peter Luong — Lion Leaping Through the Plum Blossom Mountain to Reach the High Green, Leung’s White Crane Lion and Dragon Dance Association

2007 (2005-2006 Season)

• Pandit Chitresh Das and Jason Samuels Smith India Jazz Suites

2006 (2004-2005 Season)

• SEAN DORSEY and MAIR CULBRETH — Second Kiss, Fresh Meat Productions, at Jon Sims Center
• SHANTI GUPTA and STEPHAN SESTER — Marinera, El Tunante, at Palace of Fine Arts

2005 (2003-2004 Season)

• SHINICHI MOMO KOGA and YUKO KASEKI – Ame to Ame, Inkboat

2004 (2002-2003 Season)

• Nadia Adame and Jacques Poulin-Denis in Sans Instruments (Sonya Delwaide) with AXIS Dance Company at the Alice Arts Center Theatre
• Lorena Feijoo and Joan Boada in Don Quixote (Helgi Tomasson and Yuri Possokhov after Petipa) with San Francisco Ballet at the War Memorial Opera House

2003 (2001-2002 Season)

• Joanna Berman, Julie Diana, and Katita Waldo in Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins), with San Francisco Ballet

2002 (2000-2001 Season)

• Vivien Dai, Aileen Kim, and Sharon Sato in ‘She Knelt and Through Her Tears Crossed the Sticks’ from Rice Women (Sue Li Jue), with Facing East Dance and Music
• Brian Fisher and Brandon Freeman in Tre (Sonya Delwaide), in ‘Les Invites’
• Roman Rykine, Guennadi Nedviguine, Kristin Long, Tina Le Blanc, and Katita Waldo in The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (William Forsythe), with San Francisco Ballet

2001 (1999-2000 Season)

• Jadson Caldeira and Sonya Delwaide in Depart (by Sonya Delwaide), at Summerfest 3
• Julia Diana, Rachel Rufer, Peter Brandenhoff, and Damian Smith in The Invitation (by Kenneth Macmillan), with San Francisco Ballet

2000 (1998-1999 Season)

• Evelyn Cisneros and Stephen Legate, Rubies, choreography by George Balanchine, San Francisco Ballet
• Joe Goode and Wilis Bigelow, excerpt from Deeply There, choreography by Joe Goode, performance at the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival

1999 (1997-1998 Season)

• Robert Moses, Joe Venegoni, and Dan Reiter, Untitled Solo #4, chor. (improvisation) Robert Moses, Robert Moses’ Kin
• Shannon Mitchell and Kevin Ware, On the Loose, chor. KT Nelson, ODC/SF

1998 (1996-1997 Season)

• Elizabeth Loscavio and Anthony Randazzo, Theme and Variations, chor. George Balanchine, San Francisco Ballet