The Deutscher Tanzpreis (German Dance Prize) is a 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. 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 1983: Tatjana Gsovsky 1984: Kurt Peters 1985: Gustav Blank 1986: Heinz Laurenzen 1987: José de Udaeta 1988: John Neumeier 1989: Marcia Haydée 1990: 1991: Konstanze Vernon 1992: Horst Koegler 1993: Hans van Manen 1994: Maurice Béjart 1995: Pina Bausch 1996: 1997: Philippe Braunschweig 1998: Birgit Keil 1999: Uwe Scholz 2000: Fritz Höver 2001: Hans Werner Henze 2003: 2004: William Forsythe 2005: Hans Herdlein 2006: Reid Anderson 2007: Susanne Linke 2008: John Neumeier 2009: Heinz Spoerli 2010: Georgette Tsinguirides 2011: Egon Madsen 2012: 2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: Martin Puttke 2018: Nele Hertling 2019: 2020: Raimund Hoghe 2021: 2022: Marco Goecke and 2023: , Josephine Ann Endicott, and Dominique Mercy 2024: Sasha Waltz 2026:
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 and Ursula Borrmann 2022: Verein Aktion Tanz 2023: Sophia Neises 2024: explore dance 2026:
Award for outstanding performer 2018: Meg Stuart and her Company Damaged Goods 2019: Isabelle Schad 2020: Friedemann Vogel 2021: Adil Laraki
Lifetime Achievement Award 2022: Reinhild Hoffmann 2023: Peter Appel 2024: Dieter Heitkamp 2026: Tadashi Endo
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, 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 (dance) 2011: Daniel Camargo (dance), Eric Gauthier (choreography) 2012: Gözde Özgür (dance) 2013: Bundesjugendballett Hamburg 2014: Demis Volpi (choreography) 2015: Elisa Badenes (dance) 2016: Marcos Menha (dance); Andrey Kaydanovskiy (choreography)
Anerkennungspreise 2005: Royston Maldoom (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
Website des Fördervereins Tanzkunst Deutschland e.V. (obsolete page in German)