Kylie's choreographer wins debut dance award Place Prize

The choreographer of Kylie Minogue's Fever tour has won Europe's biggest dance award.

Rafael Bonachela has become the first person to receive the £25,000 Place Prize for choreography, dance's answer to art's Turner Prize.

Bonachela's winning duet, E2 7SD (the Hackney postcode of his collaborators) for Antonia Grove and Lee Clayden depicts the dancers' diary entries, describing weather and work and their alternately tired and excited emotions.

Two hundred choreographers entered the competition, which will be held every two years. Tim Wood, a spokesman for the Place Prize said: "We set out to do for dance what the Booker has done for fiction and the Turner Prize for visual arts. Dance has been the 'Cinderella art form' for too long. These creative artists are stars in their own right, albeit often modest stars, and this award is a liberating and unashamed celebration of high achievement."