Presentation Ceremony in the Axis Restaurant, One Aldwych Hotel, Covent Garden, June 20, 7 pm

The London Awards for Art and Performance are the country's most expansive awards and recognises the best in British art and entertainment across 11 categories. Nominations are based on recent and highly rated reviews of the artist or performer's work, and a recognition of their talent and skill in their art form.

As current and excellent practitioners of their art, the nominees themselves are the best people to judge each category. Nominees are asked to pick their top artists to arrive at the shortlist and award winner who will receive the trophy. The winner will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony.

Shortlist (in development as votes are coming in, alphabetical order):

Results of public voting (please note, online voting can be unreliable so this is for interest only and will not be used in the judging). Please take a moment to vote below, only one vote per award please.

Long list in competition (click on title for more) - nominations: 18

London Dance Award Nomination Alexander Whitley: ‘.. seeks to break down the barriers between dance and other art forms, infusing contemporary dance with the emotional fecundity of the ‘embodied mind’ ’

Alice Stride · Views 419 · Feb 27 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Rosemary Lee: 'One second, the performer is raptly lost in thought; the next, they’re fixating on some distant horizon, and then coiled up, ear pressed to the ground as if listening for some distant creature or trying to melt into the earth. It’s both gentle and intense, necessarily slight, a little fey, and surprisingly beguiling.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 219 · Feb 25 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Martin Lawrance: '.. the highlight of the evening. Clearly sharing Alston’s intense musicality and classical grounding, Lawrance’s choreography takes the dancers in a new direction: more angular, more contemporary in form, riskier in responding to Rorem’s sickly-toned, intense, urgent orchestration, with difficult solos, awkward lifts and interesting groupings.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 186 · Feb 23 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Holly Noble: 'Full marks... to Holly Noble's chutzpah in using Mozart's Requiem for Fawn.. Noble brought out a tenderness between Emma Fisher and Oliver Wraith, a solicitous shepherding of each other through this overwhelming piece of music that was a quantum leap from anything else in the whole evening.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 346 · Feb 18 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Kristen McNally: '[on choreographing Lonesome Gun] .. she sends out a posse of rangy cowgirls led by the coolly excellent Hayley Forskitt. These are stereotypes who know they're stereotypes, and their every cliched move is taut with irony. In a deft mood-flip, Forskitt duets with Whitehead. The dance is beautifully crafted, and this seems to be her "authentic" self, feeling real longing, real pain.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 236 · Feb 06 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Gary Avis: 'Then he is amongst them, a larger than life figure, shaking magic dust from his hat, performing magic tricks—making marionettes dance, a boy fly and time stand still. Gary Avis, splendid character actor/dancer towering over them all, is made for the role. Sweeping cloak, grand gestures, but reassuringly warm.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 609 · Jan 26 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Kate Prince: '[on Some Like It Hip Hop] ..a fizzing tale of love, gender politics, lost daughters and heroic librarians. The music and dancing are superb: everything in this show has wit, heart and magnificent energy.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 261 · Jan 16 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Edward Watson: 'In some ways, the work [Watson in a dance adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis] is a solo tour de force, as Watson, smeared with the oily goo that Gregor's new body hideously exudes, knots himself into horrifyingly dehumanised shapes... Only Watson's lost, staring eyes retain any element of Gregor's human soul.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 429 · Jan 12 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Cathy Waller: '.. currently resident choreographer with the critically acclaimed Dance Offensive in Cambridgeshire… Contemporary Dance and Hip Hop are juxtaposed and integrated in Cathy’s choreography.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 677 · Jan 09 ·

London Dance Award nomination Heather Eddington: 'What makes Forgetting Natasha – directed by Heather Eddington – genuinely heart-rending, yet surprisingly life-affirming, is how the brutal effects of dementia are translated, without phoney sentimentality or hyperventilating drama into convincing words, movements and film images.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 326 · Dec 19 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Wayne McGregor: 'If McGregor's choreography is a metaphor for violence and injury, it is also about the heroic human impulse to survive.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 516 · Dec 11 ·

London Dance Award nomination Sir Peter Wright: ‘..gets pretty much everything spot-on, from his lucid account of the plot to the gorgeously crystalline formations for the snowflakes.’

Venetia Twigg · Views 376 · Dec 10 ·

London Dance Award nomination Lauren Cuthbertson: 'It's as though she has discovered a world of emotion inside herself – a treasure she didn't know existed.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 353 · Dec 05 ·

London Dance Award nomination Lloyd Newson: 'More than any play of the past 10 years, it argues emphatically that it isn’t Islamophobic to point out that we have a serious problem here..'

Venetia Twigg · Views 423 · Nov 24 ·

London Dance Award nomination Richard Alston: '.. these youthful works remain remarkably fresh, and are a delight to watch.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 430 · Nov 19 ·

London Dance Award nomination Sophie Martin: 'I remember MacMillan’s comment when faced with dancers’ wilfulness: “Why don’t they trust the steps!”. Sophie Martin trusts the steps with all her being, and is magnificent.'

Views 495 · Nov 08 ·

London Dance Award Nomination Akram Khan: 'He dances the tales of him and his father, London and Bangladesh, his niece’s teenage rebellion, and more bracingly, the impact of social movement from one patch of the world to the other.'

Venetia Twigg · Views 467 · Oct 25 ·

London Dance Award nomination Ash Mukherjee: '[on Song of the City] .. mysteriously fitting for the subterranean arches of the Southwark Vaults. Its intricately exact percussion of stamps and claps re-animate the gloom, like ghostly gears and levers of the engines that once cut the tunnels. What started as a celebration of India's greatest writer has evolved into an engrossing urban seance.'

Views 757 · Oct 11 ·