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Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production

British theatre award

Summary

British theatre award

Field	Value
name	Laurence Olivier Award
for Best New Dance Production
awarded_for	Best New Dance Production
presenter	Society of London Theatre
location
year	1983
holder	Assembly Hall (2025)
website

for Best New Dance Production

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in professional London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.

This award was first presented in 1983, as Outstanding New Dance Production of the Year. After the 1985 presentation, the award was set aside from 1986 to 1992, returning in 1993 under its current name.

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year	Production	Company	1983	1984	1985
Requiem	The Royal Ballet
Glass Pieces	New York City Ballet
The Nightingale	Royal Opera
Nijinsky the Fool	Lindsay Kemp
Giselle	Dance Theatre of Harlem
Consort Lessons	The Royal Ballet
Intimate Pages	Ballet Rambert
Metamorphosis	Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
Pictures	Merce Cunningham
Romeo and Juliet	London Festival Ballet
The Sons of Horus	The Royal Ballet
The Wand of Youth	Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

1990s

Year	Production	Company	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Judas Tree	The Royal Ballet
Catalyst	The Australian Ballet
Les Patineurs, The Witch Boy and Donizetti Variations	London City Ballet
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues	Rambert Dance Company
Choreartium	Birmingham Royal Ballet
Herman Schmerman	The Royal Ballet
Nutcracker!	Adventures in Motion Pictures
Romeo and Juliet	Birmingham Royal Ballet
Fearful Symmetries	The Royal Ballet
Hommage Aux Ballets Russes	Le Ballet Preljocaj
The Nutcracker	Birmingham Royal Ballet
Suenos Flamencos	Ballet Cristina Hoyos
Swan Lake	Adventures in Motion Pictures
Saints and Shadows	Arc Dance Company
SH-BOOM	10 Dancers Ensemble
Who Cares?	Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Cinderella	English National Ballet
Alice in Wonderland	English National Ballet
Carmina Burana	Birmingham Royal Ballet
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato	Mark Morris Dance Group, English National Opera in association with Dance Umbrella
The Nutcracker Sweeties	Birmingham Royal Ballet
Swan Lake	English National Ballet
Enemy in the Figure	Ballett Frankfurt
The Man with a Moustache and Room of Cooks	City of London Ballet and The Royal Ballet
We Set Out Early...Visibility was Poor	Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

2000s

Year	Production	Company	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Symphony of Psalms	Nederlands Dans Theater I
Sandpiper Ballet	San Francisco Ballet
The Cage	San Francisco Ballet
Viktor	Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Le Jardin Io Io Ito Ito	Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu
Indigo Rose	NDT II
Mellantid	NDT II
Mozartina	Zurich Ballet
Hibiki	Sankai Juku
Eidos: Telos	Ballett Frankfurt
Live	Dutch National Ballet
Onegin	The Royal Ballet
Polyphonia	Danses Concertantes
**	Rosas
Rome and Jewels	Rennie Harris Puremovement
Tryst	The Royal Ballet
Broken Fall	George Piper Dances in association with The Royal Opera
Dream Play	Nederlands Dans Theater II
Mesmerics	George Piper Dances
Promethean Fire	Paul Taylor Dance Company
Swamp	Rambert Dance Company
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Northern Ballet Theatre
Milagros	Royal New Zealand Ballet
Romeo and Juliet	Royal New Zealand Ballet
PUSH	Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant
Constant Speed	Rambert Dance Company
Giselle	Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
Zero Degrees	Akram Khan/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Antony Gormley/Nitin Sawhney
Chroma	The Royal Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty	The Royal Ballet
Fuji Musume and Kasane	Kabuki
DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse	The Royal Ballet
Jewels	The Royal Ballet
The Bull	Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
Mozart Dances	Mark Morris Dance Group
The Three Musketeers	Northern Ballet Theatre
Café Müller and The Rite of Spring	Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Impressing the Czar	Royal Ballet of Flanders
Infra	The Royal Ballet
To Be Straight with You	DV8 Physical Theatre

2010s

Year	Production	Company	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Goldberg	The Brandstrup/Rojo Project
Afterlight	Russell Maliphant
E=MC²	Birmingham Royal Ballet
A Linha Curva	Rambert Dance Company
The Rite of Spring	Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
Babel (Words)	Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet
Mambo 3XX1	Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
Cinderella	New Adventures
DESH	Akram Khan Company
Gardenia	Les Ballets C de la B
The Metamorphosis	Arthur Pita
Some Like It Hip Hop	ZooNation
Aeternum	The Royal Ballet
Cacti	Nederlands Dans Theater II
A Streetcar Named Desire	Scottish Ballet
Puz/zle	Eastman - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Sadler's Wells
Barbican Britten: Phaedra	Richard Alston Dance Company and Britten Sinfonia
What's Become of You? (Questcequetudeviens?)	Aurélien Bory and Stéphanie Fuster
32 rue Vandenbranden	Peeping Tom
Juliet and Romeo	Royal Swedish Ballet
Tabac Rouge	La Compagnie du Hanneton/James Thierrée
Woolf Works	Wayne McGregor for The Royal Ballet
He Who Falls (Celui Qui Tombe)	Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois
Roméo et Juliette	Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Betroffenheit	Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young for Sadler's Wells
Blak Whyte Gray	Boy Blue Entertainment
Giselle	Akram Khan and English National Ballet
My Mother, My Dog, and CLOWNS!	Michael Clark
Flight Pattern	Crystal Pite
Goat	Ben Duke for Rambert Dance Company
Grand Finale	Hofesh Shechter
Trees Of Codes	Wayne McGregor and the Paris Opera Ballet
Blkdog	Botis Seva
16 + A Room/Solo Echo/Bill	Ballet British Columbia
Playlist (Track 1, 2)	William Forsythe
The Unknown Soldier	Alastair Marriott

2020s

Year	Production	Company	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Ingome	Mthuthuzeli November and Ballet Black
La Fiesta	Israel Galván
Mám	Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa
Vessel	Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa
Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic
Revisor	Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young / Kidd Pivot
Draw From Within	Wim Vandekeybus - Rambert Dance Company
Transverse Orientation	Dimitris Papaioannou
Traplord	Ivan Michael Blackstock
Light of Passage	Crystal Pite for The Royal Ballet
Pasionaria	La Veronal
Triptych (The Missing Door, The Lost Room, and the Hidden Floor)	Peeping Tom
La Ruta	Gabriela Carrizo, part of Nederlands Dans Theater - NDT1
Broken Chord	Gregory Maqoma & Thuthuka Sibisi
The Rite of Spring	Seeta Patel
Time Spell	Michelle Dorrance, Jillian Meyers & Tiler Peck, part of Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends
Assembly Hall	Kidd Pivot, Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young
Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada - Pite/Kudelka/Portner	The National Ballet of Canada
Theatre of Dreams	Hofesh Shechter Company
An Untitled Love	A.I.M by Kyle Abraham

References

Johnson, The Rt Hon Boris, MP. (2020-03-23). "Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 23 March 2020 [transcript]".
McPhee, Ryan. (2021-06-14). "U.K. Postpones Reopening Roadmap; West End Theatres Will No Longer Reopen in Full in June". [[Playbill]].
Thomas, Sophie. (2022-03-08). "Everything you need to know about the Olivier Awards". londontheatre.co.uk.

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