2000 Poll entries Last Years Poll Results

As expected, the Kirov figured largely in your voting - but less expectedly, it was their productions that attracted support, rather than individual dancers.

Best production overall: The Kirov's Jewels
In second place, a tie between the Kirov again for Don Quixote, and English National Ballet's new Swan Lake

Best new production: The Kirov's new Sleeping Beauty
Another tie for second place, between AMP's CarMan and the Christopher Wheeldon piece There Where she Loves which the RB showed in their New Works programme at the Linbury.

Best revival: Ashton's Marguerite and Armand for the Royal Ballet
Runner-up was the Royal Ballet's revival of Coppélia

Best staging: The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker
Another tie for second, between the Kirov's La Bayadère and their Don Quixote.

Best home company: The Royal Ballet, again, and by a very long way
The Birmingham Royal Ballet came second.

Best visiting company: No surprise to see the Kirov well in the lead here
NYCB came second, though a long way behind

Best male dancer: A win this year for Johan Kobborg
Jonathan Cope and Igor Zelensky tied for second place, not far behind.

Best female dancer: A very close vote, with Darcey Bussell, Sylvie Guillem and Tamara Rojo in a three-way tie for the lead

Sarah Wildor and Miyako Yoshida were tied only half a vote behind - so a single extra vote for any of these five ladies would have secured a clear winner!

Best partnership: A win at last for Guillem and Cope
Bussell and Zelensky were only one vote behind in second place.

Most promising male dancer: Ivan Putrov of the Royal Ballet
With Edward Watson of the same company second, and the Kirov's Igor Kolb in third. Interesting that Yohei Sasaki, who won this category last year, didn't get a single vote either the year before that or this year.

Most promising female dancer: The Royal Ballet's Alina Cojocaru - again, not exactly a surprise!

Last year's winner, the RB's Zenaida Yanowsky came second - and third was Tamara Rojo!

Worst production: William Tuckett's The Crucible for the Royal Ballet
David Bintley's Arthur for BRB came second, though it also featured a couple of times in the voting for Best new Production.

Comments focused mainly on three dancers: Sylvie Guillem, for her performances as Marguerite and Caroline; Tamara Rojo, whose move to the Royal Ballet seems to have delighted everyone (except Derek Deane, of course); and Alina Cojocaru - and that was even before her first Juliet.

The Kirov also came in for a lot of compliments, balanced only by a few negative votes in the Worst Production section.

We'd like to say how much we like to see the votes coming in from round the world: by the nature of things, your nominations probably aren't going to win just yet - but keep voting, and in a year or two, who knows!

We're giving the prize again to the person whose votes mostly closely matched the final results: this year it's tina. Please identify yourself to Bruce, and the t-shirt will be on its way!

Thanks again to everyone who voted - and next year, more please!