Brisbane | May 2 2025

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“The best Dance Teacher PD a teacher could attend! The freedom to select your schedule based on your own teaching focus from a high standard of industry and teaching professionals is amazing! Great variety of sessions and always a great networking opportunity.”

QDEC24 Attendee

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)

 Regional & Remote Bursary

The Regional and Remote Dance Educators Bursary was created in 2020 by Ausdance Educators QLD (AEQ) to recognise and alleviate the challenges that dance educators from regional and remote communities in Queensland experience in attending professional development in-person. In 2025, the bursary will provide one practising dance educator (or the institution providing financial support for the professional development activity) with reimbursement of their costs (including registration, travel and accommodation) to attend the Queensland Dance Educators Conference 2025 (QDEC25) in Brisbane up to the value of $1000.

“The overall experience was so valuable to me, and will have a positive ripple effect on my students and wider community as I now can share all I have learned. This is great encouragement to keep developing and evolving as a dance teacher.”

Caitlin Sands, 2024 recipient (Trinity Bay State High School, Cairns)