First shown in 1991 with Tchaikovsky's famous 1890 score and Balanchine's richly figured 1981 "Garland Dance, " the production features scenic designs by David Mitchell and costumes by Patricia Zipprodt.
In a sense, what I have done has been production with a lot of international producers and the music has been very much dance music - not predominantly African, not at all African.
The National Theatre won the theatre award for its production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, while the dance prize went to the Scottish Ballet for A Streetcar Named Desire.
Polunin, who at 19 became the Royal Ballet's youngest male principal, shocked the dance world in January 2012 by unexpectedly quitting a week before he was due to appear as the lead in a production of The Dream.