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

### 1990s

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

### 2000s

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

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

| Year | Production | Company |
| - | - | - |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Ingome | Mthuthuzeli November and Ballet Black |
| 2020 | La Fiesta | Israel Galván |
| 2020 | Mám | Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa |
| 2020 | Vessel | Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa |
| 2021 | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Revisor | Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young / Kidd Pivot |
| 2022 | Draw From Within | Wim Vandekeybus - Rambert Dance Company |
| 2022 | Transverse Orientation | Dimitris Papaioannou |

* 1 2 Due to late March 2020 to late July 2021 closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022
