Osmotherly Dance Educator Award

The Osmotherly Dance Educator Award was created to recognise the outstanding contribution of dance educators whose work has clearly earned them a state, national or international reputation throughout Queensland.

The winner of the 2025 award will be announced at the Queensland Dance Education conference on May 02 2025.

“Robert was one of those rare people who had a professional dance background and was a qualified and committed dance educator of extraordinary insight and intellectual capacity. He became a leading voice in contemporary Australian dance education, able to think conceptually about the problems of teaching, learning, understanding and performing dance, about document ing the processes, and about transmitting less tangible qualities such as inspiration and passion for his art form. He had a deep understanding of other art forms, and was excited by the challenge of his students discovering the visual arts, drama, literature and technology, and their importance to dance.”

Julie Dyson on Robert Osmotherly
(Published online by Ausdance on 23 April 2013)