JACQUELINE MORLAND AWARDS 2025 - 30TH ANNIVERSARY

The Royal Academy of Dance is Proud to Present

🎉The Jacqueline Morland Awards 2025 - 30th Anniversary 🎉

ABOUT

The Jacqueline Morland Awards are Queensland's flagship RAD event held annually in Brisbane. Open to RAD students across QLD and northern NSW, the Awards are an opportunity to showcase your ballet skills and perform on a professional stage in front of a live audience and panel of highly respected adjudicators.

The Awards

All candidates who participate in the Awards, take part in a semi-final open class, that is performed in front of a live audience of family, friends, teachers and the adjudicators.  After the class, the adjudicators select and announce the finalists. Finalists return the following day to perform their chosen RAD exam dance or variation, as a solo, in front of a live audience and the adjudicators. At the end of the finals the prize recipients for the Jacqueline Morland Awards are announced.

The Dance Performance Groups

In addition to these performances, the finals also include group performances by students who have been training with special guest choreographers. For those who don't want to participate in the competition itself, the Dance Performance Groups are an excellent opportunity for students to be involved - learn a short performance from our guest teachers with 12 hours of tuition over 4 weekends, and then perform in front of a live audience of family and friends, at the Awards event.

**Please make sure you are eligible to enter before registering. Read the Eligibility and Terms and Conditions of Entry here.**

Click the 'Register Now' Button on the Right-Hand Side of the Page to Register!

Dance Performance Group Registration:

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 8AM MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY, 2025

Awards Registration:

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 8AM MONDAY 17 MARCH, 2025

LOCATION

The RAD is proud to announce that the 2025 Jacqueline Morland Awards will be held at the Thomas Dixon Centre - The world-class performing arts destination and home of Queensland Ballet in Brisbane's West End!

Thomas Dixon Centre - 406 Montague Rd, West End (Brisbane)

DATES AND TIMES 

Dance Performance Group Rehearsals

• Sunday 2, 9, 16, 23 March 2025

• Grade 1 to 3 Character Group - 9am to 12pm 
• Grade 4 and 5 Classical  Group - 9am to 12pm 
• Intermediate Foundation to Advanced Foundation Contemporary Group - 1pm to 4pm

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Saturday 29 March 2025 - Semi-Final Candidates

• Grade 4 - Arrive 7:30am.  Collect 10:15am.
• Grade 5 - Arrive 9am. Collect 11:45am.
• Intermediate Foundation - Arrive 10:15am. Collect 1:15pm.
• Intermediate - Arrive 12:15pm. Collect 3:15pm.
• Advanced Foundation - Arrive 1:45pm. Collect 4:45pm.
• Advanced 1 and 2 - Arrive 12:00pm. Collect 6:45pm.

• DANCE PEFORMANCE GROUP - Grade 1 to 3, Character - Arrive 8:15am. Collect 11:20am.
• FINALISTS - Intermediate Foundation Finalists - Arrive 8:30am. Collect 11:35am.
• FINALISTS - Advanced Foundation Finalists - Arrive 8:30am. Collect 11:35am.

• DANCE PEFORMANCE GROUP - Grade 4 to 5, Classical - Arrive 10:45am. Collect 1:35pm.
• FINALISTS - Grade 5 Finalists - Arrive 10:45am. Collect 1:50pm.
• FINALISTS - Intermediate Finalists - Arrive 10:45am. Collect 1:50pm.

• DANCE PEFORMANCE GROUP - Intermediate Foundation to Advanced Foundation, Contemporary - Arrive 1:00pm. Collect 4:05pm.
• FINALISTS - Grade 4 Finalists - Arrive 1:00pm. Collect 4:20pm.
• FINALISTS - Advanced 1 and 2 Finalists - Arrive 1:00pm. Collect 4:20pm.

Guest Adjudicators Announced Soon!

ELIGIBILITY AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

Awards Eligibility and Conditions of Entry 

Dance Performance Groups Conditions of Entry

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