Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production
Awarded for	Best New Dance Production
Location	England
Presented by	Society of London Theatre
First award	1983
Currently held by	Assembly Hall (2025)
Website	officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/

This award was first presented in 1983, as Outstanding New Dance Production of the Year. After the 1985 presentation, the award was set aside from 1986 to 1992, returning in 1993 under its current name.

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year	Production	Company
1983
	Requiem	The Royal Ballet
	Glass Pieces	New York City Ballet
	The Nightingale	Royal Opera
	Nijinsky the Fool	Lindsay Kemp
1984
	Giselle	Dance Theatre of Harlem
	Consort Lessons	The Royal Ballet
	Intimate Pages	Ballet Rambert
	Metamorphosis	Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
1985
	Pictures	Merce Cunningham
	Romeo and Juliet	London Festival Ballet
	The Sons of Horus	The Royal Ballet
	The Wand of Youth	Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

1990s

Year	Production	Company
1993
	The Judas Tree	The Royal Ballet
	Catalyst	The Australian Ballet
	Les Patineurs, The Witch Boy and Donizetti Variations	London City Ballet
	Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues	Rambert Dance Company
1994
	Choreartium	Birmingham Royal Ballet
	Herman Schmerman	The Royal Ballet
	Nutcracker!	Adventures in Motion Pictures
	Romeo and Juliet	Birmingham Royal Ballet
1995
	Fearful Symmetries	The Royal Ballet
	Hommage Aux Ballets Russes	Le Ballet Preljocaj
	The Nutcracker	Birmingham Royal Ballet
	Suenos Flamencos	Ballet Cristina Hoyos
1996
	Swan Lake	Adventures in Motion Pictures
	Saints and Shadows	Arc Dance Company
	SH-BOOM	10 Dancers Ensemble
	Who Cares?	Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
1997
	Cinderella	English National Ballet
	Alice in Wonderland	English National Ballet
	Carmina Burana	Birmingham Royal Ballet
1998
	L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato	Mark Morris Dance Group, English National Opera in association with Dance Umbrella
	The Nutcracker Sweeties	Birmingham Royal Ballet
	Swan Lake	English National Ballet
1999
	Enemy in the Figure	Ballett Frankfurt
	The Man with a Moustache and Room of Cooks	City of London Ballet and The Royal Ballet
	We Set Out Early...Visibility was Poor	Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

2000s

Year	Production	Company
2000
	Symphony of Psalms	Nederlands Dans Theater I
	Sandpiper Ballet	San Francisco Ballet
	The Cage	San Francisco Ballet
	Viktor	Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal
2001
	Le Jardin Io Io Ito Ito	Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu
	Indigo Rose	NDT II
	Mellantid	NDT II
	Mozartina	Zurich Ballet
2002
	Hibiki	Sankai Juku
	Eidos: Telos	Ballett Frankfurt
	Live	Dutch National Ballet
	Onegin	The Royal Ballet
2003
	Polyphonia	Danses Concertantes
	Rain (ballet) [fr]	Rosas
	Rome and Jewels	Rennie Harris Puremovement
	Tryst	The Royal Ballet
2004
	Broken Fall	George Piper Dances in association with The Royal Opera
	Dream Play	Nederlands Dans Theater II
	Mesmerics	George Piper Dances
	Promethean Fire	Paul Taylor Dance Company
2005
	Swamp	Rambert Dance Company
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Northern Ballet Theatre
	Milagros	Royal New Zealand Ballet
	Romeo and Juliet	Royal New Zealand Ballet
2006
	PUSH	Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant
	Constant Speed	Rambert Dance Company
	Giselle	Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
	Zero Degrees	Akram Khan/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Antony Gormley/Nitin Sawhney
2007
	Chroma	The Royal Ballet
	The Sleeping Beauty	The Royal Ballet
	Fuji Musume and Kasane	Kabuki
	DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse	The Royal Ballet
2008
	Jewels	The Royal Ballet
	The Bull	Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
	Mozart Dances	Mark Morris Dance Group
	The Three Musketeers	Northern Ballet Theatre
2009
	Café Müller and The Rite of Spring	Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
	Impressing the Czar	Royal Ballet of Flanders
	Infra	The Royal Ballet
	To Be Straight with You	DV8 Physical Theatre

2010s

Year	Production	Company
2010
	Goldberg	The Brandstrup/Rojo Project
	Afterlight	Russell Maliphant
	E=MC²	Birmingham Royal Ballet
	A Linha Curva	Rambert Dance Company
	The Rite of Spring	Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
2011
	Babel (Words)	Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet
	Mambo 3XX1	Danza Contemporanea de Cuba
	Cinderella	New Adventures
2012
	DESH	Akram Khan Company
	Gardenia	Les Ballets C de la B
	The Metamorphosis	Arthur Pita
	Some Like It Hip Hop	ZooNation
2013
	Aeternum	The Royal Ballet
	Cacti	Nederlands Dans Theater II
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Scottish Ballet
2014
	Puz/zle	Eastman - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Sadler's Wells
	Barbican Britten: Phaedra	Richard Alston Dance Company and Britten Sinfonia
	What's Become of You? (Questcequetudeviens?)	Aurélien Bory and Stéphanie Fuster
2015
	32 rue Vandenbranden	Peeping Tom
	Juliet and Romeo	Royal Swedish Ballet
	Tabac Rouge	La Compagnie du Hanneton/James Thierrée
2016
	Woolf Works	Wayne McGregor for The Royal Ballet
	He Who Falls (Celui Qui Tombe)	Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois
	Roméo et Juliette	Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
2017
	Betroffenheit	Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young for Sadler's Wells
	Blak Whyte Gray	Boy Blue Entertainment
	Giselle	Akram Khan and English National Ballet
	My Mother, My Dog, and CLOWNS!	Michael Clark
2018
	Flight Pattern	Crystal Pite
	Goat	Ben Duke for Rambert Dance Company
	Grand Finale	Hofesh Shechter
	Trees Of Codes	Wayne McGregor and the Paris Opera Ballet
2019
	Blkdog	Botis Seva
	16 + A Room/Solo Echo/Bill	Ballet British Columbia
	Playlist (Track 1, 2)	William Forsythe
	The Unknown Soldier	Alastair Marriott

2020s

Year	Production	Company
2020
	Ingome	Mthuthuzeli November and Ballet Black
	La Fiesta	Israel Galván
	Mám	Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa
	Vessel	Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa
2021	Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic[A]
2022[A]
	Revisor	Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young / Kidd Pivot
	Draw From Within	Wim Vandekeybus - Rambert Dance Company
	Transverse Orientation	Dimitris Papaioannou
2023
	Traplord	Ivan Michael Blackstock
	Light of Passage	Crystal Pite for The Royal Ballet
	Pasionaria	La Veronal
	Triptych (The Missing Door, The Lost Room, and the Hidden Floor)	Peeping Tom
2024
	La Ruta	Gabriela Carrizo, part of Nederlands Dans Theater - NDT1
	Broken Chord	Gregory Maqoma & Thuthuka Sibisi
	The Rite of Spring	Seeta Patel
	Time Spell	Michelle Dorrance, Jillian Meyers & Tiler Peck, part of Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends

1. Due to late March 2020^[1] to late July 2021^[2] closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022^[3]