IZZIES
2008 NOMINEES / WINNERS
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all for the 2006-2007 SEASON)

RESTAGING/REVIVAL/RECONSTRUCTION
NOMINEE - Aunis, Jean-Claude Ciappara, San Francisco Ballet
NOMINEE - Sleeping Beauty, Helgi Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet
2009 NOMINEES / WINNERS - March 23, 2009
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UPCOMMING 2007-2008 SEASON)

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Kara Davis, �One Tuesday Afternoon�, 2008 WestWave Dance Festival, Project Agora
Jorma Elo, �Double Evil�, New Works Festival Program B, San Francisco Ballet
Joe Goode, �the beauty that was mine/ through the middle, without stopping�, AXIS Dance Company
Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters, �an attic an exit�, lean to productions
Yuri Possokhov, guest choreographer, �Sagalobeli�, State Ballet of Georgia

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Individual
Maria Basile, �Birthing the Ascension�, sjDANCEco
Maria Kochetkova as Giselle in �Giselle�, San Francisco Ballet
Edwardo (Eddie) Madril, �Sun Dagger Solstice/Gifts of Creation, Hoop Dance�
Shannon Roberts as Anita in �West Side Story Suite�, San Francisco Ballet
Anne Zivolich, �A Walk in the Woods�, ODC Dance
Emily Leap, �Sol Niger�, Circo Zero

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Ensemble
Rodney Bell, Sonsheree Giles, �To Color Me Different�, AXIS Dance Company, 2008 WestWave Dance Festival
Gianna Davy, Kevin Delaney, �Vespers�, Company C Contemporary Ballet
Ceech Hsu, Dennis Infante, John Magat, �Music is the Way�, DS Players
Laurel Keen, Bret Conway, �Rasa�, Alonzo King�s LINES Ballet
Joanna Meinl, Rachna Nivas, Anjali Nath, Rina Mehta, Dmitra Smith, Seibi Lee, Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, �Shabd�, Chitresh Das Dance Company
Idan Yoav, Kevin Yee-Chan, Hlin Diego, Jeremy Kovitch, John Mercke, Katie Scherman, �Passing�, Zhukov Dance Theatre

Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
AXIS Dance Company, �the beauty that was mine, through the middle, without stopping�
De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association, �Homenaje a mis maestros�, 2008 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
InkBOAT, �C(H)ord�
Joe Goode Performance Group, �Wonder Boy�
Alonzo King�s LINES Ballet, �25th Anniversary Home Season�

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design (Costumes, Lights, and Sets)
Della Davidson, David K.H. Elliott, Ellen Bromberg, Jennifer Michelson, Dawn Sumner, Louise Kellogg, Gerald Bawden, Oliver Kreylos, Michael Neff, �Collapse (suddenly falling down)�, Sideshow Physical Theatre
Katie Faulkner, Benjamin Goldman, JC Earle, �The Dry Line�, little seismic dance company
Alexander V. Nichols, �Other Suns�, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Basil Twist, Dan Sweeney, Joe Goode, �Wonder Boy�, Joe Goode Performance Group
Allen Willner, �51802�, ESP Project

Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text

John Adams, �Joyride�, New Works Festival Program B, San Francisco Ballet
Delina Brooks, �Beauty, The Beast: a dance-theater production�
Dr. Anthony Brown + Fifth Stream Music, �Cross Currents�, Dimensions Dance Theater
Sean Feit, �Sol Niger�, Circo Zero
Zakir Hussain, �Rasa�, Alonzo King�s LINES Ballet

Outstanding Achievement in Restaging, Revival, or Reconstruction

Zen�n Barr�n, Ensambles Ballet Folkl�rico de San Francisco, �Danza del Venado� by Amalia Hern�ndez (1959)
Jean-Pierre Frohlich & Jenifer Ringer, San Francisco Ballet, �West Side Story Suite� by Jerome Robbins (1995)
Ronn Guidi, Oakland Ballet, �Afternoon of a Faun� by Vaslav Nijinsky(1912)
Donald Mahler, Company C Contemporary Ballet, �Dark Elegies� by Anthony Tudor (1937)
Jaime Mart�nez, �The Envelope� by David Parsons (1986), Company C Contemporary Ballet

Special Award � for outstanding achievement during the previous calendar year by or for a Bay Area individual or organization
San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director, �New Works Festival (2008)�

Katie Faulkner, Benjamin Goldman, �Loom�

Sustained Achievement � for outstanding contributions spanning ten or more years in any field of Bay Area Dance
Gary Masters, Artistic Director, San Jose Dance Company, 19 years of service to the Bay Area dance community and specifically: in San Jose
Cher Delamere, Librarian, The Bernard Osher Foundation Art, Music and Recreation Center, San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch)
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