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Outstanding Individual Performance
An individual performer can be recognized for his or her performance of, or within, an evening length production as a company member or a soloist.
Outstanding Group Performance
A group or company can be recognized for its performance of, or within, an evening length production.
Outstanding Youth Performance sponsored by The Sprenger.Lang Foundation
This award is for an outstanding youth soloist or group performance, for ages 18 and under.
Outstanding New Work
This award goes to a choreographer for his/her creation of an outstanding new work this season. The work can be a part of a showcase or mixed bill.
Emerging Performer or Group
The Emerging Performer or Group Award is for an artist or group who is gaining recognition for their performance. Groups may be professional or pre-professional, and are eligible for this award during their first five years of performance.
Emerging Choreographer
The Emerging Choreographer Award is for an artist who is gaining recognition for choreographic talent and work in the DC Metro area. The choreographer can be an established dancer but may be recognized in this category only for the first five years of his/her choreographic career.
Excellence in Costume Design
This award recognizes a costume designer who captures a choreographer's vision in a creative, innovative, and wearable way.
Excellence in Lighting Design
This award recognizes a lighting designer who uses theatrical lighting to illuminate a choreographer's vision.
Excellence in Sound Design/Original Composition
This award recognizes a composer who creates outstanding music or sound compositions for dance.
Excellence in Stage Design/Multimedia
This award recognizes a designer or videographer who creates an outstanding scenic environment in which dance is performed.
Outstanding Overall Production – Small Venue
The nominees in this category performed in venues with fewer than 400 seats, are chosen for original full evening productions this season, and include all dance genres. They are judged on the many elements involved in creating a dance production including production quality, programming choices, choreography, choice of collaborators, and technical and artistic expression of the dancers.
Outstanding Overall Production – Large Venue
The nominees in this category performed in venues with more than 400 seats, are chosen for original full evening productions this season, and include all dance genres. They are judged on the many elements involved in creating a dance production including production quality, programming choices, choreography, choice of collaborators, and technical and artistic expression of the dancers.
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education
This award recognizes an individual or organization for outstanding ongoing contributions to the field of dance through educational efforts. These efforts may include academic or non-academic dance training, outreach programs, and/or performances for students and nontraditional audiences.
Alan M. Kriegsman Award
This award recognizes a person or organization for his/her ongoing artistic or community service to the DC/MD/VA region. Nominees can be school directors, artists who have made an impact on the field, persons or organizations that have supported the dance community, etc.
THIS AWARD IS DECIDED BY STEP 2-THE MDCDA BALLOT.
Founders Award for Innovation in Dance
This award recognizes an individual or organization for breaking new ground, exploring new processes or approaches, or using existing knowledge in a new way during the Awards year. The 2007 award will be given by MDCDA Founder Cheles Rhynes, and future awards will be given by the prior year's winner, with final approval by the MDCDA Selection Committee. This award is not eligible for public nomination.
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