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Dance has always been a huge passion of mine, since I could walk.
Growing up I was always the first to be up and moving to the rhythm. I took classes here and there but mostly would spend my time choreographing my own dances with friends and family.

During my high school years, my love for choreography took off and achieved my certificate in Dance and Creative Arts. As a part of this subject, I was teaching other classes contemporary, jazz, and lyrical hip hop routines to perform within our arts studio for performances. I also enjoyed planning and organising the performances.

I had several opportunities as a dance teacher in Adelaide, one of those was working with DanceSA. After 7 years of teaching in 2015, I relocated to Kalgoorlie, WA and operate machines. A few years later I had 3 beautiful children.

During this time, I missed the dance space and realised this is where my enjoyment and passion lies. I reconnected with the Director of DanceSA and am ecstatic to be kick starting the DanceWA business for our communities across Perth.

Teaching brings so much happiness into my life, I feel thankful to provide enjoyment through dance classes and share this with our students each week. I look forward to helping them gain confidence to get up and perform on stage!

Emma began her dance journey in 1991 at the age of 6, starting out a small Jazz Ballet school on the Fleurieu peninsula in South Australia, here she developed her love for dance over the next 11 years.

In 2000 Emma became an assistant dance teacher at the school. She was a co-ordinator of many dance programmes through secondary school years choreographing Eisteddfods, dance productions and concerts. Emma was also a youth leader for a government programme, Active8. Through this group she travelled interstate to conferences working with youth and leadership. She also had the opportunity to work with various arts organisations such as Carclew Youth Arts, Country Arts SA and AIT Arts while with the Active8 programme.

In October of 2003 Emma registered the business ‘DanceSA', opening at Yankalilla, South Australia in February 2004 with 80 students.
At the same time contracting to many SA schools as a choreographer, producing many productions to date.

DanceSA was operating at full capacity within its first year of operation. In the years following, DanceSA has grown exponentially to the point where it now operates dance schools in 24 locations across metropolitan and rural South Australia.

DanceAUS Group registered as a company in 2016 and has prepared a national plan of the dance school network model of DanceSA. And here we arrive at DanceWA!

Emma has completed a certificate IV in Dance Teaching and Management and receives ongoing business mentorship through executive coaching.

"Creating an opportunity for thousands of students, who are able to experience the benefits of dance through our schools has been one of my greatest achievements. I feel enriched to provide such an amazing dance platform for the children across Australia"

Emma's other great achievements are her three beautiful children Lexie, Summer and Massimo.

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Lucie started dancing at the age of 11; taking classes in jazz, hip-hop, ballet and tap and assistant teaching pre-school ballet classes. Her love for dancing developed throughout high school where she completed Stage 2 Dance with merit and passed many CSTD jazz exams. Lucie spent three years competing in dance and cheerleading competitions across Australia and in the USA but soon found that the freedom of recreational dance appealed to her more.

In 2013, Lucie spent 9 months at a holiday resort in Turkey working as a dance teacher and performer; she has also spent three consecutive summers teaching dance at Camp Hilltop in New York.

“I really love being a part of the DanceAUS family. I love seeing student’s confidence grow in class and there is no better feeling than watching them shine on stage at the end of the year.”

Josh is qualified in Live Production and Technical Services, Business Management and Leadership through Adelaide College of the Arts, UniSA and Scouts Australia. Josh is trained in First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Responding to Abuse and Neglect, Rigging, Work Health and Safety and Training and Assessment.
Josh is currently Production Manager for Central Audio Visual, based at Adelaide Oval. Josh has experience working at Country Arts SA, AJ Sound, Tatachilla Lutheran College, and Brighton Secondary School.

Josh operates Smart Event Management, an event consulting, audio visual production and live streaming business which operates Australia-wide for clients such as the Department of Defence, Westpac, and Scouts Australia.

Josh is a member of Business SA and the Professional Conference Organisers Association, and volunteers with Scouts SA as Assistant Chief Commissioner (Events) and the National Training Team.

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