UK National Dance Awards winners announced

The Winners of the UK National Dance Awards were announced at a ceremony at The Barbican Centre in London, on 9th June 2025.

The awards – voted upon by the 60 dance critics who are members of the Critics’ Circle – are for performances seen between 1st January and 31st December 2024.

In this 25th anniversary of the Awards, kathak dancer Aakash Odedra won the Outstanding Male Classical Performance Award, the first time ever in the Awards' history that this award has been won by a dancer outside of ballet. How fabulous!

Following is the full list of the winners.

DE VALOIS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT

Dame Siobhan Davies

DANCING TIMES AWARD FOR BEST MALE DANCER

Tommy Franzén and Aakash Odedra

BEST FEMALE DANCER

Erina Takahashi

STEF STEFANOU AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANY

The Royal Ballet

BEST MID-SCALE COMPANY

Acosta Danza

BEST INDEPENDENT COMPANY

London City Ballet

BEST CLASSICAL CHOREOGRAPHY

Crystal Pite for Angels’ Atlas

BEST MODERN CHOREOGRAPHY

Kyle Abraham for Love Letter (on shuffle)

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 

Caspar Lench

OUTSTANDING FEMALE MODERN PERFORMANCE

Hannah Shepherd in Ruination

OUTSTANDING MALE MODERN PERFORMANCE

Tommy Franzén in The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party & Minotaur

OUTSTANDING FEMALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE

Beatrice Parma in La Fille mal gardée

OUTSTANDING MALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE

Aakash Odedra in Mehek

OUTSTANDING CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION

Tom Visser

BEST DANCE FILM

The Principles of Classical Ballet

BEST SHORT DANCE FILM

Burn from the Inside

Congratulations!