WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

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CANBERRA & SYDNEY

We currently have a fantastic summer dance workshops running in BOTH Canberra and Sydney in January, scroll down the page to check them out - remember to register!

SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE

With a whole bunch of extremely talented and inspiring guest teachers and various registration options available this is an amazing opportunity not to be missed! Click on the button below to book through our TRYBOOKING.COM page. The workshops will run between 9am and 3pm daily.

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WORKSHOP SCHEDULES

The workshops will run between 9am and 3pm daily.

CANBERRA

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GUEST TEACHER LINE-UP
-- SYDNEY --

Tom Anastopoulos

Tom Anastopoulos is a Sydney based dancer, specialising in Commercial Jazz. Dancing credits include Kylie & Dannii Minogue, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Ke$ha, Rita Ora, Charli XCX, Nick Jonas, Delta Goodrem, Havana Brown. Regularly appearing on TV shows The X Factor AU & The Voice AU. Regularly working for Opera Australia, he's performed in, Carmen, La Traviata, Turandot, The Love of 3 Oranges.

CLAIRE PHIPPS-MALES

Claire has danced for the last 30years and began her training in the Illawarra. Upon completion of year 12 at Mcdonald college, under the tutelage of Josephine Jason, Alan Cross and Maxine Kohler she was accepted into second year and went on to graduate with Honours from The Australian Ballet school’s associated Diploma course. During her time at the school Claire performed Odette in Swan Lake Act Two, the title role in Ray Powells One in Five, Gerda in Petal Miller Ashmole’s Snow Queen and had the role of Victoria Paige co-‐created for her in the Red Shoes.

Claire then joined The Australian Ballet and danced many corps and soloist roles.
Moving north she became a Soloist with The Queensland Ballet and later the Ballet Mistress.
Favourite roles include White and black Swan in Swan Lake, Michaela in Carmen , Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, Eurycides in Orpheus, Don Quixote , Flower Festival and Le Corsaire Grand Pas De Deux and Principal/soloist roles in classical and contemporary ballets performed nationally and internationally.
Having had the honour of working with such names as Natalia Makarova, David Mcallister, Li Cunxin, Ross Stretton, Francois Klaus, Graeme Murphy, Paul Boyd, Stephen Paige,Natalie Weir, Stanton Welch, Stephen Baynes, Noah Gelber, ( for William Forsythe), Mario Schroeder, Nils Christie, Young Soon-‐Hue, Davida Bombana, Tim Harbour, Rosetta Cook, Adrian Burnett, Tim Brown and The Australian Opera Company.

jw murray

Born in Sydney, JW (Jake Murray) grew up learning many styles of dance which has led him to some great experiences and opportunities such as performing in numerous corporate functions and club shows all over NSW.
JW has had the priviledge of learning from some of the industry’s best teachers and choreographers. After teaching, choreographing and coaching over 50 studios specializing in Tap and Hip-Hop and hosting workshops over Australia – JW has decided to further his career not only as a teacher/choreographer but to progress his live entertainment company CLIQUE ENTERTAINMENT.
When JW isn’t in the studio, he will be working on his many other companies such as Performance Platforms – a stage and prop company, and RHYTHM DIVISION – a select young mens Tap crew.
JW loves to travel and connect with people around the world and has recently travelled to Los Angeles where he had the opportunity to teach at The Edge Performing Arts Centre. He is set to travel to Brazil in the near future to share his passion for the performing arts.
JW is also the Director/Owner of Sydney Tap Dance Festival, an exciting Tap Dance Festival like no other world wide!

Rodrigo Salcedo II

Rodrigo is a key figure in the Sydney street dance scene as a teacher, performer, choreographer and social dancer and he endeavours to share his knowledge and joy for the dance with his students. He owes his appreciation for music and dance to his teachers which have shaped his understanding and teaching methods. His main influences being Ejoe, Marjory, Brian Green, Sugapop, Mr. Wiggles, Greg Campbellock Jr and Willie Estrada just to name a few.
His fascination for street dance, has taken him to NYC (2007, 2010), Toronto (2010), Tokyo (2012), Makati & Taipei (2013).

Rodrigo has taught at numerous dance studios in Sydney: Brent St (Fox Studios), Urban Dance Centre, Brooke Henderson, Dance Central, Vogue, Dancekool and Crossover just to name a few. He has also taught the Bachelor of Dance students at Wesley Institute (on and off between 2009 - 2014) . Currently, he is the Hip-Hop Dance Technique teacher of the Bachelor of Dance students at AMPA. Furthermore, he has assisted many dance crews and individual dancers in refining their craft.

Feras Shaheen

Feras was born in Dubai to Palestinian parents and moved to Sydney at the age of 11. He has completed a Bachelor in Design at Western Sydney University and is now a working graphic design, photographer, videographer and dancer.
Coming from a Hip Hop background, Feras has experienced different aspects of dance from being a performer, teacher, and a choreographer as well as a digital artist. He has developed his own style that includes technique from different styles of street dance. His highlights include performing with Phly Crew at Phly Crew 2.0 Show, competing in Las Vegas at the Hip Hop International in August 2016 with Hip Hop crew: ZBOYZ Mafia.
Due to further training in 2016, Feras completed the Dream Dance Company Show | Business program directed by Marko Panzic. Feras has recently came back from Europe where he trained and worked on a duet called ’Klapping’ with Ahilan Ratnamohan, a contemporary project that consists in choreographic research in football. Feras is now focused on expanding his street dance knowledge together with his crew 'Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers', performing in various contemporary projects, as well as creating urban theatre.

Kristie Pike

Kristie Pike is a Sydney artist who has over 15 years of dance experience. She completed most of her contemporary and ballet training at Newtown High School of Performing Arts where she gained her high school certificate in 2011.
Kristie was invited to perform and audition in 2012 at the National High Schools Dance Festival in Philadelphia, USA with Newtown Performing Arts where she received a number of scholarships. She decided to further her training in Sydney in 2013 by completing the Classical and Contemporary Course at Brent Street Studios, attaining her Diploma in Dance (Elite Performance).
In 2016 she performed in Locreado Dance Company’s ‘Nothing’, choreographed by Loredo Malcom and guest choreographer Amy Campbell. In this same year she returned from Italy where she was able to train with some renown contemporary and commercial choreographers. She then went onto performing in Limitless Dance Company’s ‘SE7EN’ in 2017.
In recent years Kristie has been on secondments with The Australian Dance Theatre(SA) , contemporary choreographer Shaun Parker(VIC) and participated/ collaborated in a DAIR residency with Sam Smith . She has also had the opportunity to perform in Expression Dance Company’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and was also involved in Revolving Door ’13 Rooms’, a Kaldor Arts Project in collaboration with Rafael Bonachela (Director of Sydney Dance Company).

Talia Kuo

Talia Kuo began dancing at the age of 5, training in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop and Musical Theatre. She then went on to further her training at Urban Dance Centre, the Village Performing Arts Centre and completed her Certificate IV in Dance at Brent Street in 2014, under the instruction and guidance of some of Australia's leading choreographers and visionaries.
Since, Talia has performed at various events both within Australia and internationally, including the Sydney Hair Expo (2015), HSBC's 150th Anniversary Gala in London and Hong Kong (2015) and for Canon Australia at Vivid Festival Sydney (2017). She is grateful to have had the opportunity to perform alongside a number of Australian artists, working closely with a multitude of well-respected creative directors. Some recent highlights include: appearing in the film clips for Heart People's "Homecoming" & Elk Road's "Hanging On a Thread" and performing with the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and rapper Tkay Maidza at the 2017 APRA Awards.

GUEST TEACHER LINE-UP
-- CANBERRA --

prudence caldwell

Prudence has professionally graced the stage to audiences from around the world for over 20 years with The Royal New Zealand Ballet, Australian Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Royal Ballet and numerous european companies as a leading ballerina, along with 6 star cruise lines as an adagio specialist. Pru was guided through the world of Aerial Artistry in Las Vegas with Cirque Du Soliel and now today, performs the sylph like moves and grace of a ballerina combined with contortion on air, showcasing her varied and breathtaking talent to audiences worldwide.

NEVEN CONNELLY

Neven is a variety act whose training is rooted in live theatre experiences growing up. A member of Sydney's own Phly Crew, with whom he represented Australia with at the World of Dance finals in LA last year and has created numerous stage productions with, he’s also travelled individually to train in London, Germany, Japan and Singapore to develop his craft since training full-time locally at Brent Street Studios.
His mix of influences has resulted in a diverse career pattern involving touring Australia and the USA in Russall Beattie’s ‘The Empire Strips Back’ Burlesque, getting signed onto the books of Cirque du Soleil, working with Phly Crew interstate and aboard P&O Cruise lines, performing at the Sydney Opera House with burlesque icon Meow Meow, dancing with contemporary company We Are Sound, winning the title of Australia’s NEXT Choreographer in the ADF/NRG competition and in between the above singing and dancing around Luna Park Sydney.

Represented by Focus Talent Management, Neven has appeared amidst TV commercials for the likes of KFC, ANZ, Oak, iSelect, Audi and MLA, and then amidst music videos for national and international artists, one of which (with Born Dirty) landed him a nomination for Best Performer at the Berlin Music Video Awards.

STEPHEN GOW

Stephen Gow is a teacher and dancer trained in Hip Hop, Contemporary and Acrobatics. After multiple seasons of dancing with Quantum Leap’s Youth Ensemble as well as being a prominent dancer within the hip hop community he moved to Sydney to work commercially. He has gone on to work with international and Australian artists including, Taylor Swift, Psy, Jason Derulo, Timomatic, Ricki Lee and more.
Stephen has represented Australia on numerous occasions, most notably, competing at, and winning World of Dance New York in 2010, a Finalist at R16 World Bboy Championships held in Korea in 2013 & 2014.
After working with Nick Power on “Compartmentalised” In Hong Kong in collaboration with Unlock Dancing Plaza, he went on to develop Nick Power’s “Cypher” in 2013. He has since toured the sold-out show to the Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne, Sydney Festival, Tanz Im August in Berlin, URB Festival in Helsinki, Oulo in Finland as well as numerous regional tours throughout out Australia.

Thea Kabadani

Thea has just moved back to Canberra from Sydney and cannot wait to share her knowledge as a performer, dance teacher and fitness Instructor.
In her early teens Thea became very involved with the Hip-hop scene and joined a hip-hop Crew at Dance central in Phillip. At the age of 18 she became a Hip-hop dance instructor and taught at many schools around Canberra such as Canberra dance development centre, Capital Dance studios, and Dance Central.
When her Dance crew Bliss (an all female Canberra hip-hop crew) qualified for the World Hip-hop Championships in Las Vegas, her passion grew stronger and she continued to take dance more seriously.
Traveling to America and New Zealand frequently to gain more skills and knowledge, Thea has learned from the very best choreographers and has a world of knowledge when it comes to street styles.

In 2014 She moved to Sydney after being accepted into Brent Street performing Arts school and graduated with a certificate 4 in Dance. She learned to be very versatile at Brent street, as the school focused more on the technical side of dancing, learning every style from ballet, contemporary to musical theatre.
She has performed and taught all over Sydney and had recently come back to Canberra to share all she knows! She also teaches Barreattack group fitness classes (a fusion of ballet, Pilates and cardio) at Fit and Fast Gyms around Sydney and incorporates her knowledge of strength and endurance into her classes.

Cassandra Merwood

Cassandra Merwood (@cassandramerwood) is a strong female dancer and an emerging choreographer making moves within the dance industry. Starting from a young age within the dance studio scene she has now transitioned into learning as many styles she can and this passion translates to her work as she dabbles in various scenes. Some credits include Ausdance, ABC Kids, Dream Dance Company, Harvey Norman & Dirtyfeet. Her end goal is to challenge and eventually change the current ‘mould’ of the booking dancer in the commercial world to create more jobs showing diversity for both genders.

XANDER JEAN

Xander has been dancing for 19 years. Trained in Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop and Musical Theatre at Glenda Yee School of Dance and attended Brent Street Full Time in 2012.
Xander has appeared on Tv Shows like X Factor, The Voice, Australia's Got Talent, SYTYCD and many more. He has also performed with artist such as Ricky Martin, Kelly Rowland, Little Mix, Lunch Money Lewis, Kylie Minogue and Danni Minogue, Timomatic, Guy Sebastian, Ricki Lee, Jessica Mauboy and many more.

RACQUEL KUHLE

Racquel Kuhle has been dancing for the past 19 years.
In 2013, Racquel graduated from Brent Street Performing Arts Centre with a Cert IV in Performing Arts. Here she was educated and trained in all areas of Dance, Drama, and Singing.
Racquel has been working as a Dance Teacher and Mentor for the past 7 years, teaching styles such as Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Ballet, and JFH.

Harrison Wade

Harrison Wade is a Dancer, Freestyler and Choreographer from Sydney, Australia.
Trained in multiple styles of dancing by some of the industries biggest names, Harry brings a unique blend of Hip Hop Movement and foundations with various other techniques learned during his 15+ years of dancing and 7+ years of teaching experience. Harrison and his crew (the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers) aim to make dancing an enjoyable experience for everyone whether they are at professional level or an absolute beginner.