Dana Fouras nominated for National Dance Award 2021
We are extremely excited to announce that Dana Fouras has been nominated for OUTSTANDING FEMALE MODERN PERFORMANCE in our recent production maliphantworks3 at the 21st National Dance Awards!
The winners will be announced at an online ceremony to be streamed on Sunday, 27th June 2021.
The event will also play host to the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement for which there are no prior nominations.
The Chair of the National Dance Awards, Graham Watts, said: “This has been a terrible year for the arts and dance and dancers have suffered from the enforced absence of live performance. A streak of a silver lining has been in the innovative and enthusiastic way in which dance has adapted to utilising a digital outlet in a significant way. This has opened the opportunity for critics in the UK to see companies from overseas without stepping onto an aeroplane or Eurostar and, as a consequence, we are delighted to include nominees from Dutch National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, New York City Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet based upon their digital output, alongside the recognition of Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater for their live performances at Sadler’s Wells back in September 2019. There has certainly been no absence of dance talent to enjoy during these dark days of closed theatres.”
The National Dance Awards have been organised by the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in each year of this Millennium to celebrate the vigour and variety of Britain’s thriving dance culture. They are presented by the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle, which brings together over 60 dance writers and critics. They are the only awards given by the body of professional dance critics in the UK.
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