These finalists staged ten further performances, before a panel of judges named Rafael Bonachela as the inaugural Place Prize winner.
Three competitors were selected by a panel of dance experts, and one by audience vote, to compete in the Finals in April the following year for £35,000 in prize money.
The shortlisted commissions were selected by a dance panel chaired by Eddie Nixon, Director of Theatre and Artist Development at The Place.
The Place Prize, sponsored by Bloomberg, was the biggest single source of commissions for new short works in British dance.
By the end of the 5th edition, it had enabled the creation of 92 original pieces of choreography, most of which remained in the artists' repertories, and toured in theatres and festivals nationally and internationally.