The Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award

The QEII Coronation Award is presented in recognition of outstanding services to the art of dance. This Award was instituted in 1953, the year of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, by Dame Adeline Genée, then President of the Royal Academy of Dance.

Suggested nominees can be anyone who has made significant and sustained contributions to the art of dance at a national or international level, particularly someone who has made a significant positive change in the dance world or its related fields.

Suggestions may be made by RAD Members, Board Members, the CEO, President, Vice Presidents, Ambassadors and Staff and sent to the Artistic Department for collation and verification, before they are reviewed and shortlisted by an appropriate panel, selected and chaired by the CEO. This panel will submit a recommendation to be voted on by the Board of Trustees at their March meeting.

For full details of the award and nomination process please view the guidelines document.

Note: the QEII may not be awarded every year/will only be awarded when an appropriate recipient is identified.

If you’d like to make a suggestion for the QEII award, please email honorarynominations@rad.org.uk.