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 the 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. The ceremony was held at the 1820 Settlers National Monument.

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.

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).

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. In the sortable table below, the disciplines are those given by the artists themselves in the printed version of the National Arts Festival programme.