7th Standard Bank Ovation Awards

The 7th Standard Bank Ovation Awards ceremony took place on July 10, 2016, to recognize productions on the National Lottery Fringe at South Africa's National Arts Festival that demonstrate artistic innovation and excellence, which celebrate the exploration of new performance styles, and which have the courage to open new conversations through the arts.[1] The ceremony was held at the 1820 Settlers National Monument.[2]

7th Standard Bank Ovation Awards
DateJuly 10, 2016
Location1820 Settlers National Monument, Grahamstown, South Africa

Eligibility

Standard Bank Ovation Awards are only awarded to new productions on the National Lottery Fringe. 232 productions were eligible for the 2016 Standard Bank Ovation Awards.[3]

Awards Panel

The panel for the 2016 Standard Bank Ovation Awards included: Tracey Saunders (convenor), Lynette Marais (Festival management representative), Adrienne Sichel (community arts / cross-disciplinary arts), Ernestine White (performance art / installations / cross-disciplinary), Lliane Loots (dance), Samson Diamond (classical music), Gregory Maqoma (dance), Gregory Homann (theatre) and Atiyyah Khan (contemporary music). The World Fringe Alliance Representatives were Anneke Jansen (Amsterdam Fringe) and Julian Caddy (Brighton Fringe). Additional members on the jury included Mokoala Ndebele (Joburg Theatres), Rudi Sadler (arts writer / Naledi Theatre Awards judge), Heleen Coetzee (arts education), Johann van der Merwe (arts promoter), Steyn du Toit (arts writer) and Fiona Gordon (arts projects facilitator).[4]

Non-competitive awards

Standard Bank Standing Ovation Awards were presented to the French Institute of South Africa and the Embassy of France, for two decades of supporting visionary collaborations and exchanges between South African and French artists; Gary Gordon, honouring his longstanding creative energy in South Africa's cultural life and his enormously significant contributions to the vitality of the National Arts Festival's Main, Fringe and Arena programmes; and Ismail Mohamed, for his nine-year commitment as Artistic Director of the National Arts Festival.

The 2016 Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights was presented to Drama for Life, for their integrated use of the arts as a tool for social transformation and healing.

Winners

Winners of Standard Bank Ovation Awards are announced daily on the National Arts Festival website and in The Cue, a local newspaper printed during the National Arts Festival. On the final day of the National Arts Festival, a ceremony is held during which the level of the awards is revealed, as are the names of the judging panel. [5][6] In the sortable table below, the disciplines are those given by the artists themselves in the printed version of the National Arts Festival programme.[7]

Production Name Discipline Production Company Type of Award Date Announced
Sillage Theatre Rust Co-Operative Gold 2 July
Dangled Theatre ExploSIV Productions Silver 6 July
Die Glas Ennie Draad Theatre Artscape Silver 9 July
The Graveyard Theatre Rust Co-Operative Silver 4 July
Ityala Lamawele Cabaret/Musical Theatre Artscape Silver 7 July
Sacre for One Physical Theatre Alan Parker Silver 5 July
Chapter 2 Section 9 Theatre Sibikwa Arts Centre Ovation 8 July
Cock Theatre Matt Newman Ovation 3 July
Henrietta with Love Theatre Artscape Ovation 2 July
Paleho Theatre Lebo Leisa Ovation 2 July
Tease! Theatre Bloom & Stone Ovation 9 July
You Suck: and Other Inescapable Truths Theatre Klara van Wyk Ovation 9 July
Out of Bounds Comedy Hungry Minds Ovation 8 July
Thenx Presents Aza-nya is Five-to Comedy ExploSIV Productions Ovation 9 July
Ebola Physical Theatre Theatre for Africa Ovation 4 July
Falling of the Horn Physical Theatre Uyabona Ke Ovation 3 July
Burn Dance Liquid Fusion Ovation 9 July
Fabric of the Universe Dance Lexi Meier Ovation 9 July
...feathers... Dance Moving Into Dance Mophatong Ovation 9 July
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Poetry UJ Arts & Culture/FADA Ovation 9 July
Dani & the Lion Cabaret/Musical Theatre Daneel van der Walt Ovation 10 July
The Concert Classical/Recitals Neo Motsatse Ovation 10 July
Msaki and the Golden Circle Contemporary Music One Shushu Day Artistry Ovation 5 July
Nombasa Contemporary Music Nombasa Ovation 5 July
Bird/Fish Visual Art Kristin Hua NG-Yang Ovation 1 July
10 Days in a Shebeen Theatre Umsindo Theatre Projects Merit 10 July
Milked Voice Theatre Slindile Mthembu Merit 10 July
Rat Race Family Fare Well Worn Theatre Co Merit 10 July
Isaro Family Fare Outreach Foundation/Hillbrow Theatre Merit 10 July
Abangawona (The Unseen) Dance Sibonelo Dance Project Merit 10 July
The Dark Ages Comedy Sibonelo Dance Project Encore 10 July

References
  1. Davies, Kate (ed.). 2015. National Arts Festival Programme. Port Elizabeth: National Arts Festival. (p.14)
  2. NAF Admin. "Rewarding the best of the best at #NAF16" National Arts Festival, July 10, 2016
  3. BroadwayWorld News Desk. "Awards Morning at the 2016 National Arts Festival" BroadwayWorld.com, July 11, 2016
  4. BroadwayWorld News Desk. "Awards Morning at the 2016 National Arts Festival" BroadwayWorld.com, July 11, 2016
  5. NAF Admin."Ovation Award winners at #NAF16" National Arts Festival, July 9, 2016
  6. Taylor, Anne. "How the Ovation Awards Word" National Arts Festival, July 8, 2015
  7. Davies, Kate. 2015. National Arts Festival Programme. Port Elizabeth: National Arts Festival. (pp.155-270)
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