Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design (Costumes, Lights, and Sets)
For sets, costumes, lighting, and other visual elementsfor work created for a Bay Area individual or company that had its Bay Area premiere during the period of eligibility. From 1994 to 1999 and again in 2000-2001 these were separate awards

2008 (2006-2007 season)

• Jo Kreiter, David Fredrickson & Stephen McCaffery/Figureplant, Sean Riley — Live Billboard Project, Flyaway Productions

2007 (2005-2006 season)

• Clyde Sheets, lighting/set design; Lynne Grant and James Meyers, costume design; Scott Horton, table design and construction; Dilon Paul, video; Austin Forbord, original video; Deborah Slater, director Hotel of Memories, Deborah Slater Dance Theater

2006 (2004-2005 season)

• Joanna Haigood - Dances Around the House, Zaccho Dance Theater, at Exploratorium

2005 (2003-2004 season)

• Leslie Seiters - Such Tiny Danger, Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw

2004 ( 2002-2003 season)

• Allen Willner and Mary Lois Hare for visual design, Heaven’s Radio, Inkboat, at Venue 9

2003 (2001-2002 season)

• Patty-Ann Farrell for visual design, Be With (Anna Halprin and Eiko and Koma)

2002 (2000-2001 season)

• Mario Alonzo (costumes) for Axis Dance Company’s entire program at the Cowell Theater
• Alexander V. Nichols (lighting design) for the entire ‘Les Invit’s’ program (Sonya Delwaide)
• Lauren Elder (set design), Below Zero (Kim Epifano)

2001 (1999-2000 season)

• Kelly Hanson for sets and Heather Basarab for lights, Drowsy (by Joe Goode), for the Joe Goode Performance Group
• Thyra Hartshorn for scenic and costume design and Kevin Connaughton for lights, Magrittomania (by Yuri Possokhov), for San Francisco Ballet

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUMES

2000 (1998-1999 season)

• Robert Rosenwasser and Sandra Woodall, Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, choreography by Alonzo King, Lines Contemporary Ballet

1999 (1997-1998 season)

• Raquel Lopez, El Cuadro Flamenco

1998 (1996-1997 season)

• Ariel, Secret Garden, chor. Ronn Guidi, Oakland Ballet

1997 (1995-1996 season)

• Sandra Woodall, Mambo Ballet: Frankie & Johnny, Smuin Ballets/SF

1996 (1994-1995 season)

• Sandra Woodall, Lambarena, San Francisco Ballet

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN LIGHTING

2000 (1998-1999 season)

• Sara Linnie Slocum, Summerfest 1999

1999 (1997-1998 season)

• Joe Williams, ‘Sky Dancers’ evening (Project Bandaloop, Theresa Dickenson, Jo Kreiter, Terry Sendgraff, Lela Performance Group, and The Dance Brigade), Brady Street Dance Center
• Sarah Linnie Slocum, Carmina Burana, chor. Michael Smuin, Smuin Ballet/SF
• Lisa Pinkham, Slow, chor. Val Caniparoli, San Francisco Ballet

1998 (1996-1997 season)

• Jack Carpenter, Crossing, Joanna Haigood, Zaccho

1997 (1995-1996 season)

• Joe Williams, Ballet of the Banshees: Resurrection, Dance Brigade; and for Summerfest ‘96

1996 (1994-1995 season)

• Jack Carpenter, Take/Place: This is Where I Am Now, Joe Goode Performance Group

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SETS

2000 (1998-1999 season)

• Matthew Antaky for the season, including:
  • Animal Acts, choreography by Stephen Pelton, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater
  • Sojourn at Alexandria, choreography by Liss Fain, Liss Fain Dance
  • Southern Girl, choreography by Lily Cai, Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company

1999 (1997-1998 season)

• Ice/Car/Cage

1998 (1996-1997 season)

• Mikiko Uesugi, Blood Wine, Blood Wedding, Theatre Of Yugen and La Tania

1997 (1995-1996 season)

• Nayland Blake, The Maverick Strain, Joe Goode Performance Group

1996 (1994-1995 season)

• Remy Charlip, Ludwig and Lou

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL DESIGN

1995 (1993-1994 season)

• Jack Carpenter (Lighting Design), Kristalnacht, Nancy Karp and Dancers

1994 (1992-1993 season)

• Reiko Goto, Cho Mu

1993 (1991-1992 season)

• K. Ruby, Amy Christian, and Jay Mead, Altars To The Ancestors, Wise Fool Puppet Intervention

1992 (1990-1991 season)

• Alex Nichols (Lighting Design) and Sandra Woodall (Costumes and Concept), Age of Unrest, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company

1991 (1989-1990 season)

• Lauren Elder (Set Design), Mira, chor. Sara Shelton Mann, Contraband

1990 (1988-1989 season)

• Sandy Walker (Production Design), Mountain/Tree/Water, Ellen Webb Dance Company

1989 (1987-1988 season)

• Kyoko Ibe (Set Design), The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, Tandy Beal and Co.
• Alexander Nichols (Lighting Design), Georgia Stone, Yoko Ono and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company

1988 (1986-1987 season)

• Terry Allen (Production Design), Pedal Steal, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
• Lauren Elder (Set/Environmental Design), Evol and Religare, Contraband, Sara Shelton Mann, Artistic Director
• James Morris (Set Design), Ascension of Big Linda into the Skies of Montana,Joe Goode Performance Group
• Sara Linnie Slocum (Lighting Design), Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s ‘86-’87 season