Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work

The Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work was a dance award presented by Live Performance Australia at the annual Helpmann Awards from 2001 to 2016.^[1] The Helpmann Awards are Australia's national awards for live performance.

Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work
Country	Australia
Presented by	Live Performance Australia
First award	2001
Currently held by	Sheoak, Bangarra Dance Theatre (2016)
Website	www.helpmannawards.com.au

From 2017, the award was superseded by separate Helpmann award categories for Best Ballet and Best Dance Production.

Indigenous contemporary dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre received the award six times, and The Australian Ballet won it four times.

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.

• Source:^[2][3]

Year	Title	Production company(ies)
2001 (1st)
	Skin	Bangarra Dance Theatre
	Body of Work - A Retrospective	Sydney Dance Company
	Hydra	Chunky Move
	Coppelia	West Australian Ballet
2002 (2nd)
	Requiem	Australian Ballet & State Opera of South Australia
	Corroboree	Bangarra Dance Theatre
	Eidos:Telos (Ballett Frankfurt)	Melbourne Festival
	Tivoli	Australian Ballet & Sydney Dance Company
2003 (3rd)
	Swan Lake	The Australian Ballet
	The Age of Unbeauty	Australian Dance Theatre
	Ellipse	Sydney Dance Company
	Walkabout	Bangarra Dance Theatre
2004 (4th)
	Bush	Bangarra Dance Theatre
	Great Piper Dances	Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Opera House
	Held	Australian Dance Theatre in association with Adelaide Bank 2004 Festival of Arts and Anchorage Concert Association (Alaska)
	Underland	Sydney Dance Company
2005 (5th)
	Shen Wei Dance Arts	Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Opera House
	Already Elsewhere	Sydney Festival
	Mr. B - A Tribute to George Balanchine	The Australian Ballet
	Shades of Gray	Sydney Dance Company
2006 (6th)
	Jiri	The Australian Ballet
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	West Australian Ballet
	An Evening of Works by Russell Maliphant	George Piper Dances presented by Sydney Festival
	I Want to Dance Better at Parties	Chunky Move presented by Sydney Festival
2007 (7th)
	Structure & Sadness	Lucy Guerin Company
	Lawn	Brisbane Powerhouse
	Monumental	Melbourne International Arts Festival and Ros Warby
	zero degrees	Les Ballets C. De La B. and Akram Khan Company presented by Sydney Festival
2008 (8th)
	Glow	Chunky Move presented by Melbourne Festival
	Nutcracker	The Australian Ballet
	Roadkill	Brisbane Powerhouse and Dancenorth choreographed by Splintergroup
	Sacred Monsters	Akram Khan Co. presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts 2008, Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Powerhouse
2009 (9th)
	Mathinna	Bangarra Dance Theatre
	Firebird	The Australian Ballet
	Two Faced Bastard	Melbourne International Arts Festival and Chunky Move
	we unfold	Sydney Dance Company
2010 (10th)
	FIRE	Bangarra Dance Theatre
	Dyad 1929	The Australian Ballet
	Harakiri - a rite	STRUT dance
	KORPER	Melbourne International Arts Festival and Sasha Waltz
2011 (11th)
	Where the Heart Is	Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre
	Sutra	Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Festival
	Amplification	BalletLab and Phillip Adams (with C.U.B Malthouse)
	Vertical Road	Melbourne Festival and Akram Khan Company
2012 (12th)
	Can We Talk About This?	Presented by DV8 Theatre and Sydney Opera House. Co-produced by Theatre de la Ville and Festival d'Automne Paris, National Theatre of Great Britain and Dansens Hus Stockholm
	Anatomy of an Afternoon	Martin del Amo, Performing Lines and Sydney Festival
	Aviary: A Suite for the Bird	Phillip Adams BalletLab in Melbourne Festival 2011
	MASS	Dancenorth
2013 (13th)
	TERRAIN	Bangarra Dance Theatre
	Black Project 1 & 2	Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House & Insite Arts
	Keep Everything	Chunky Move
	Cacti	Sydney Dance Company
2014 (14th)
	Chroma	The Australian Ballet
	Ballet at the Quarry: Radio and Juliet	West Australian Ballet presented in association with Perth International Arts Festival
	Bolshoi Ballet – The Bright Stream	Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Tourism and Events Queensland
	Sadeh21	Batsheva Dance Company, Adelaide Festival and Perth International Arts Festival
2015 (15th)
	Frame of Mind	Sydney Dance Company
	MEETING	Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House and Insite Arts
	Motion Picture	Lucy Guerin Inc in association with Arts House
	precipice	Rachel Arianne Ogle
2016 (16th)
	Sheoak	Bangarra Dance Theatre
	Cockfight	Performing Lines and The Farm
	Habitus	Australian Dance Theatre
	Spectra	Dancenorth

See also

• Dance in Australia