Outstanding Achievement in Performance — Individual
For performance(s) by a Bay Area artist or artist-in-residence during the period of eligibility. Category may include performances in both old and new work.

From 1984 to 1986 this included what is now called Sustained Achievement.

2010 (2008-2009 season)

• Ramon Moreno Acanda - for entire season with Ballet San Jose
• Laura Elaine Ellis – Grace – 35th Anniversary Celebration , Dimensions Dance Theater

2009 (2007-2008 season)

• Emily Leap – Sol Niger, Circo Zero
• Maria Kochetkova – as Giselle in Giselle, San Francisco Ballet

2008 (2006-2007 season)

• Ibrahima Diouf — JUSAT, Diamono Coura West African Dance Company

2007 (2005-2006 season)

• Robert Moses Doscongio, Robert Moses’ Kin

2006 (2004-2005 season)

• Jose Francisco Barroso — Rhumba, Susana Arenas Dance Company, at Dance Mission Theater
• Prince Credell — Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

2005 (2003-2004 season)

• Gina Dawson – California Stories: A time’ A place, Rhodessa Jones: The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women
• Gonzalo Garcia – Apollo, George Balanchine

2004 (2002-2003 season)

• Kara Davis for her entire season; Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at the Herbst Pavilion, Janice Garrett + Dancers at the Cowell Theater, and Kunst-Stoff at ODC Theater and McKenna Theater

2003 (2001-2002 season)

• Muriel Maffre for her entire 2002 season with San Francisco Ballet at the War Memorial Opera House
• Kelly Teo in Diablo Ballet’s Season Opening Gala
• Erin Yarbrough in Giselle (Coralli/Perrot, staged by Frederic Franklin) with Oakland Ballet

2002 (2000-2001 season)

• Joanna Berman in The Sleeping Beauty (Marius Petipa/Helgi Tomasson), with San Francisco Ballet
• Charya Burt in Reamker (traditional) with the Charya Burt Classical Cambodian Dance Group in the San Francisco Ethnic Dance FestivaL
• La Tania in Tientos and Martinete at the Cowell Theater

2001 (1999-2000 season)

• Liz Burritt for her entire season with the Joe Goode Performance Group
• Uli Schmitz for the entire program with Axis Dance Company at the Cowell Theater

2000 (1998-1999 season)

• Tina Le Blanc, entire season, San Francisco Ballet

1999 (1997-1998 season)

• Lucia LaCarra, The Cage, chor. Jerome Robbins, San Francisco Ballet

1998 (1996-1997 season)

• Joanna Haigood, Never Less Alone, chor. Joanna Haigood, Zaccho

1997 (1995-1996 season)

• Rhodessa Jones, The Blue Stories, Edge Festival

1996 (1994-1995 season)

• La Tania, Soleares

1995 (1993-1994 season)

• Joanna Berman, Spring Season, San Francisco Ballet

1994 (1992-1993 season)

• Eric Hoisington, Spring Season, San Francisco Ballet
• June Watanabe, A Moment

1993 (1991-1992 season)

• Jon Weaver, Cold Hard Cash Variations and Red Flag Dances
• Robert Henry Johnson, The Creation

1992 (1990-1991 season)

• Elizabeth Loscavio, Ballo Della Regina, San Francisco Ballet

1991 (1989-1990 season)

• Muriel Maffre, San Francisco Ballet’s ‘89-’90 Season
• Mercy Sidbury, Dancing Through The Years, chor. Mel Wong

1990 (1988-1989 season)

• Evelyn Cisneros, Swan Lake, San Francisco Ballet
• Terry Sendgraff, for her July ‘89 season

1989 (1987-1988 season)

• Joanna Haigood, Dance For Yal, chor. Joanna Haigood
• Christopher Boatwright, San Francisco Ballet’s ‘87-’88 season
• Tracy Kai-Maier, San Francisco Ballet’s ‘87-’88 season

1988 (1986-1987 season)

• Katie Nelson, ODC/San Francisco’s Constant Reminders, and strength of work during ‘86-’87
• Chitresh Das, for outstanding artistry in the Indian classical dance form, Kathak

1987 (1985-1986 season)

• Rosa Montoya, Founder and Artistic Director of Rosa Montoya Bailes Flamencos

1986 (1984-1985 season)

• Linda Meyer, Principal Dancer with the San Francisco Ballet for 20 years