Dora Awards 2020 Recipients 

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the Dora Award winners and nominees!

Outstanding Production

Winner: hollow mountain (Rock Bottom Movement)

Nominees:

Eden Planted (DanceWorks / Zata Omm)

A Hidden Princess (Pratibha Arts)

AF (Red Sky Performance)

Angels’ Atlas (Angels’ Atlas with Chroma & Marguerite and Armand, The National Ballet of Canada)

Outstanding Original Choreography

Winner: Crystal Pite – Angels’ Atlas (Angels’ Atlas with Chroma & Marguerite and Armand, The National Ballet of Canada)

Nominees:

Alyssa Martin – hollow mountain (Rock Bottom Movement)

Kate Hilliard – this happened… (Citadel + Compagnie)

Thomas Fonua – AF (Red Sky Performance)

William Yong – Eden Planted (DanceWorks / Zata Omm)

Outstanding Performance by an Individual

Winner: Josh Martin – Leftovers (dance: made in canada/fait au canada, Mrozewski Series, princess productions and Company 605)

Nominees:

Bagashree Vaze – A Hidden Princess (Pratibha Arts)

Christianne Ullmark – Encarnado (House Mix, Toronto Dance Theatre)

Danielle Baskerville – Janus is a god (dance: made in canada/fait au canada, Cruz Series, princess productions and the Dietrich Group)

Erin Poole – Encarnado (House Mix, Toronto Dance Theatre)

Greta Hodgkinson – Marguerite and Armand (Angels’ Atlas with Chroma & Marguerite and Armand, The National Ballet of Canada)

Miyeko Ferguson – AF (Red Sky Performance)

Syreeta Hector – Black Ballerina (Citadel Dance Mix 2019, Citadel + Compagnie)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble

Winner: The Ensemble of hollow mountain (Rock Bottom Movement)

Nominees:

The Ensemble of Resonance (DanceWorks CoWorks / Human Body Expression)

The Ensemble of La vie attend (dance: made in canada/fait au canada, Morrison Series, princess productions and Parts+Labour_Danse)

The Ensemble of Angels’ Atlas (Angels’ Atlas with Chroma & Marguerite and Armand, The National Ballet of Canada)

The Ensemble of Vena Cava (House Mix, Toronto Dance Theatre)

Outstanding Original Sound Composition

Winner: Eliot Britton, Rick Sacks – AF (Red Sky Performance)

Nominees:

Bageshree Vaze, Vineet Vyas – A Hidden Princess (Pratibha Arts)

Owen Belton – Angels’ Atlas (Angels’ Atlas with Chroma & Marguerite and Armand, The National Ballet of Canada)

Sashar Zarif – Kismet: Opposing Destiny (dance: made in canada/fait au canada, Morrison Series, princess productions and Sashar Zarif)

Sydney Herauf – hollow mountain (Rock Bottom Movement)

Outstanding Achievement in Design

Winner: Jay Gower Taylor, scenic design – Angels’ Atlas (Angels’ Atlas with Chroma & Marguerite and Armand, The National Ballet of Canada)

Nominees:

Fara Tolno, sound design – KIRA, The Path | La Voie (Lua Shayenne Dance Company presented by Luminato)

Hyemi Shin, scenic design – Orpheus Alive (Orpheus Alive with Chaconne, The National Ballet of Canada)

Jeremy Mimnagh, projection design – LOT X (DanceWorks / Harbourfront Centre / adelheid)

Lisa Mann, William Yong, costume design – Eden Planted (DanceWorks / Zata Omm)