Awards

De Gieskes-Strijbis Podiumprijs is awarded each year to two makers who contribute to the quality and diversity of the performing arts sector in the Netherlands. This award consists of € 60,000 euro.

BNG Nieuwe Theatermakersprijs a theatre award for young talent under the age of 35. The winner is chosen by a jury of professionals (programmers and dramatists) during the Dutch Theatre Festival. The winner wins € 45,000 to retake the winning production.

VSCD prizes

• Theo d’Or award for the most impressive performance in a prominent role
• Theo d’Or award for the most impressive performance in a supporting role
• Theo d’Or award for the most innovative stage performance
• Proscenium-achter-de-schermen-prijs award for the person, body or group (company, director or producer) who has made an essential contribution to directing, décor, costume, dramaturgy or musical backing, etc.
• Mime/Performance Prijs award for the person or group that has made the most important contribution to movement theatre
• Gouden en Zilveren Krekels awards for youth theater, including for the most impressive stage performance and the most impressive production of the year
• Poelifinario cabaret award for the most impressive programme(s) of the season
• Neerlands Hoop cabaret award for the most promising theatre maker(s)
• Oeuvreprijs award for an outstanding oeuvre in the Dutch performing arts industry
• Zilveren en Gouden Krommers awards for theatre employees who have been practicing their profession for 25 years and who have been in the profession for 40 years

Kunstbende young people’s organisation to promote talent (13-18 years) that organises the Kunstbende competition. The winner of the first prize is given a place in the Kunstbende collective, a coaching programme and a master class at Artez.

Top Naeff Prijs is an incentive award for promising students in their final year at one of the courses in the performing arts at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam in the event of an ‘exceptional performance, on the basis of which it is likely that the arrival of the student(s) in question will signify an enrichment of the existing practice of dance and/or theatre in the Netherlands’.

Charlotte Köhler Prijs is an award that the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation presents every year on the recommendation of a jury of experts to a young, talented theatre designer whose past work shows signs of promise.

Erik Vos Prijs This biennial award of € 5,000 euro is intended to honour young theatremakers who are recognised as possessing outstanding talent.

Wim Bary Stipendium is awarded once every two years to a talent that has manifested itself in the theater field; a young theater maker. It concerns an award of € 7,500 and the winner must not be older than 35 years.

The Next! is awarded annually to a maker or group that promises to make a performance in which the mission of DNA Next! is propagated. Diversity and inclusivity in the broadest sense are the starting point. This award concerns a maximum amount of € 25,000.

Toneelschrijfprijs Each year, this playwriting prize is awarded to the author of the best originally Dutch-language stage work. The winner has a chance to win a cash prize of €10,000. The nominees each win €1,000. The Toneelschrijfprijs is organised by the Performing Arts Fund NL.

Jiří Kylián-ring was presented to Jiří Kylián as a token of appreciation for his unflagging enthusiasm and inspiring and innovative choreographies. The owner is asked to pass the ring on to an artist who, like him or her, is an inspiring and innovative figure in the dance world.

Prijzen Dansersfonds gives away three different awards: the Incentive award, the Honorary award and a Special award to dancers and choreographers.

Innovatieprijs Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht is an incentive award that makes a sum of € 25,000 available to give the winner more power in producing their ideas. The new work or creation process will be presented for the first time during the subsequent edition of the Dutch Dance Days.

De Zwanen The Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors (VSCD) presents several awards for the performing arts that target performances by famous artists and producers that can be seen in many venues. The purpose of the awards is to honour the performing artists themselves, but also to increase the familiarity of the public and the media with the performing arts concerned as a whole.

BNG Bank Excellent Talent Dans Award award that supports talent in the field of choreography and consists of a sum of € 50,000 euros to finance a tour. The aim is to support talented young artists with the next stage in their career. 

Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC) competition to stimulate and offer opportunities to choreographers from all over the world. Thanks to this competition, the XL Production Award, the Audience Award and the Partner Awards that will be offered by several renowned dance companies and institutions the new choreographers will get the opportunity to develop themselves further by integrating in the professional dance world.

Prix de Lausanne is a particularly prestigious international competition for young ballet dancers between the ages of 15 and 18 who are not yet professionals. There are various awards.

Benois de la danse is presented every year to ballet dancers and choreographers who have stood out internationally. Igone de Jongh and Cédric Ignace from Het Nationale Ballet are among previous nominees. The award was created by the International Union of the Workers of Choreography and was first presented in the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow in 1991.

Musical Awards are set up by the Musical Awards Foundation on the initiative of Joop van den Ende to honour exceptional performances by performing artists in musical productions.