The Deutscher Tanzpreis (German Dance Prize) is a prestigious prize for artistic dance in Germany. It has been awarded annually since 1983. The ''Deutscher Berufsverband für Tanzpädagogik'' awarded the prize until 2012. From 2013 to 2017, it was awarded by an association, ''Förderverein Tanzkunst Deutschland''. In 2017 the German Dance Prize was handed over to the ''Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.'' (DTD) as sponsor. The ''Dachverband'' realizes the award ceremony in close cooperation with the city of

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

. It is awarded to personalities who earned special merits regarding the artistic dance in Germany. From 2005 to 2016, an additional award, ''Zukunft'' (Future) has been given to promising young artists in the categories female dancer, male dancer and choreographer. An additional ''Anerkennungspreis'' (Prize of acknowledgement) has been given for special merits from 2005 to 2016.

Recipients

German Dance Prize

* 1983:

Gret Palucca Gret Palucca (born Margarethe Paluka; 8 January 1902 – 22 March 1993) was a German dancer and dance teacher, notable for her dance school, the Palucca School of Dance, founded in Dresden in 1925. Life and work Margarethe Paluka was born in Mu ...

* 1983:

Tatjana Gsovsky Tatjana Gsovsky (/''Tatjana Wassiljewna Gsowskaja'', born Issatschenko ; 18 March 1901 – 29 September 1993) was an internationally known ballet dancer and choreographer who was ballet mistress of the Berlin State Opera, Teatro Colón, Deutsche ...

* 1984:

Kurt Peters Kurt Gustav Karl Peters (17 August 1897 – 23 May 1978) was an Austrian chemist. His work focused on the area of fuel technology, physical chemistry and catalytic reactions as well as the separation of rare gases and hydrocarbons. History After ...

* 1985: Gustav Blank * 1986: Heinz Laurenzen * 1987: José de Udaeta * 1988:

John Neumeier John Neumeier (born February 24, 1939) is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director. He has been the director and chief choreographer of Hamburg Ballet since 1973. Five years later he founded the Hamburg Ballet School, which also in ...

* 1989:

Marcia Haydée Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira da Silva (born 18 April 1937) is a Brazilian ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director. She was prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko and succeeded him as the company's director, serv ...

* 1990: * 1991:

Konstanze Vernon Konstanze Vernon (2 January 1939 – 21 January 2013) was a German ballet dancer, academic teacher and director of a ballet academy and a ballet company. She was from 1963 to 1981 prima ballerina of the ballet at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She tau ...

* 1992:

Horst Koegler Horst Koegler (22 March 1927 – 11 May 2012) was a German dance critic, journalist and writer. He was the editor and author of books on the ballet scene in Germany, as well as the author of essays in journals and introductions to illustrated book ...

* 1993:

Hans van Manen Hans Arthur Gerard van Manen (; born 11 July 1932) is a Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer. He studied under Sonia Gaskell and Françoise Adret. Van Manen wrote many ballets. He worked for the Dutch National Ballet from 1973 ...

* 1994:

Maurice Béjart Maurice Béjart (; 1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French-born dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He developed a popular expressionistic form of modern ballet, talking vast th ...

* 1995:

Pina Bausch Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as . Bausch's approach was noted for a stylized blend of dance mov ...

* 1996: * 1997: Philippe Braunschweig * 1998:

Birgit Keil Birgit Keil (born 22 September 1944) is a German ballet dancer. She was prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet and was internationally known as ''The German Ballerina'', She has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst ...

* 1999: Uwe Scholz * 2000: Fritz Höver * 2001:

Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as t ...

* 2003: * 2004: William Forsythe * 2005: Hans Herdlein * 2006:

Reid Anderson Reid Anderson (born 15 October 1970) is a bassist and composer from Minnesota. He is a member of The Bad Plus with drummer Dave King, saxophonist Chris Speed, and guitarist Ben Monder. The original lineup of The Bad Plus first played together ...

* 2007: Susanne Linke * 2008:

* 2009:

Heinz Spoerli Heinz Spoerli (born 8 July 1940) is a Swiss dance maker, internationally known. After a long career as a ballet dancer and company director, he is now widely considered to be one of the foremost European choreographers of his time. Early life and ...

* 2010:

Georgette Tsinguirides Georgette Tsinguirides (born 27 February 1928) is a ballet dancer, ballet mistress and choreologist. She was the assistant of John Cranko at the Stuttgart Ballet and became in 1966 the first choreologist in Germany. Still active in 2015 after 70 ...

* 2011: Egon Madsen * 2012: * 2013: * 2014: * 2015: * 2016: Martin Puttke * 2018: Nele Hertling * 2019: * 2020:

Raimund Hoghe Raimund Hoghe (12 May 1949 – 14 May 2021) was a German choreographer, dancer, film maker, journalist, and author. Because he was born with scoliosis, his early efforts were focused on journalism. His writings explored the human condition; a do ...

* 2021: * 2022: and

Award for outstanding artistic developments in dance

* 2018: Ballett des Staatstheaters Nürnberg * 2019: Jo Parkes / Mobile Dance * 2020: Antje Pfundtner in Gesellschaft (APiG) and Raphael Hillebrand * 2021:

Claire Cunningham Claire Cunningham (born 1977) is a Scottish choreographer and dancer who performs on crutches. She creates dances and sculpture that involve crutches for people of all abilities. She identifies herself as a disabled person. Life Cunningham was ...

and Ursula Borrmann * 2022: Verein Aktion Tanz

Award for outstanding performer

* 2018:

Meg Stuart Meg Stuart (born 1965 in New Orleans) is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Brussels and Berlin. Her company, Damaged Goods, operates from Brussels since 1994. Start as a dancer and choreographer Stuart moved to New York ...

and her Company Damaged Goods * 2019:

Isabelle Schad Isabelle Schad (born 21 April 1970) is a German dancer and choreographer. Biography Schad was born in Stuttgart and studied ballet there from 1981 to 1990. She then danced for six years in various ballet companies before becoming a member of U ...

* 2020: Friedemann Vogel * 2021: Adil Laraki

Lifetime Achievement Award

* 2022:

Reinhild Hoffmann Reinhild Hoffmann (born 1 November 1943 in Sorau) is a German choreographer and dancer who is an important innovator in Tanztheater, along with Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke.Walther, Suzanne. ''Dance of Death: Kurt Jooss and the Weimar Years''. Ha ...

Recipients of ''Deutscher Tanzpreis Zukunft''

From 2005 to 2015 (with a break in 2008), the German Dance Prize "Future" was also awarded to up-and-coming artists who "have already attract attention" * 2005:

Polina Semionova Polina Alexandrovna Semionova (russian: link=no, Полина Александровна Семионова; born 13 September 1984) is a Russian ballet dancer and model for Uniqlo who is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet T ...

, Flavio Salamanca (dance), Thiago Bordin (choreography) * 2006: Alicia Amatrian, Jason Reilly (dance), (choreography) * 2007: , Marian Walter (dance), Terence Kohler (choreography) * 2008: no award * 2009: Marijn Rademaker (dance) * 2010:

Iana Salenko Iana Salenko ( uk, Яна Саленко; born 19 July 1983) is a Ukrainian-German ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer at the Berlin State Ballet. Early life Salenko was born and raised in Kyiv, USSR. She has five siblings, and her paren ...

(dance) * 2011:

Daniel Camargo Daniel Camargo (born September 1991) is a Brazilian ballet dancer. He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 2009, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2013. In 2016, he left to join the Dutch National Ballet, before leaving in 2019 to pursue a free ...

(dance), Eric Gauthier (choreography) * 2012: Gözde Özgür (dance) * 2013: Bundesjugendballett Hamburg * 2014: Demis Volpi (choreography) * 2015:

Elisa Badenes Elisa Badenes is a Spanish ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer at the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany. Early life Badenes was born in Valencia, Spain. She started ballet at Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valencia at age 11. In ...

(dance) * 2016: Marcos Menha (dance); Andrey Kaydanovskiy (choreography)

''Anerkennungspreise''

* 2005:

Royston Maldoom Royston Maldoom, (born 1943) is a British choreographer whose works, including ''Adagietto'' and ''Ursprung'', have been performed for various dance companies, such as The Jefferson Dancers and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Dance, choreography and ...

(choreography, dance teacher) * 2007: Uschi Ziegler * 2010: Susanne Menck & Christine Eckerle * 2011: Achim Thorwald * 2013: Tobias Ehinger (Ballet manager) * 2014: Nina Hümpel * 2015: Ricardo Fernando (choreography, ballet director) * 2016: Elisabeth Exner-Grave, Liane Simmel, Eileen M. Wanke (dance medical professionals)

References

External links

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Website des Fördervereins Tanzkunst Deutschland e.V.
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