UPDATE FROM TEGAN!

Hi guys, I am a little behind on posting Tegan's update... lets go down memory lane back to the 13th Feb!!!!
Miss Rachel


Hi Guys,

This week was really fun and different. Througout the year we have guest teachers come to the school and this week we had Michael Schwandt and Keath Hawley.

On Tuesday afternoon we had a two hour class with Michael Schwant. Michael is an American choreographer and stage director. He has worked on TV commercials, music videos and live events. Here are a few of the people he has worked with: Cyndi Lauper, Avril Lavigne, Lady Gaga, Kelly Rowland, David Guetta, The Veronicas and Flo Rida. Pretty impressive!

He has a website if you want to check him out...

Our class started with his warm up. It was pretty fun but extremely hard. We did a lot of sit-ups and push-ups and abit of strethching. We then moved on to the routine which was to “On the floor” by J-Lo. It was such a fun routine and we managed to learn the whole thing which was so good.

On Friday we had Keath Hawley who’s a choreographer and visual designer. He was absolutely amazing and such an inspiring man. We were told by our director to look really pretty if we’re a girl and to look buff if we’re a guy. We were also told not to talk or yawn during his class cause we’ll get kicked out. But once it was time to do his class he wasn’t as scary as everyone made out.

He will be coming back throughout the year and he is someone that we should try to impress as he is extremely well known in the performing arts industry and he’s also always on the look out for talent for the future.

We learnt a jazz dance with him that I loved. It was just such a great class I didn’t want to leave and I can’t wait to have him again in the future. He also has a website if you want to check it out.

Love Teges

Summer Holiday Workshop

Thank you very much to the Collins family for sending in some photos of what they got up to in the Jan Holidays. Emily and Nick Collins attended the URBAN DANCE CENTRE Workshop in Sydney. Nick came home with a swag of cool stuff after being awarded one of the major awards of the week.. Congrats Nick.

They both were lucky enough to learn and mix with some of the industry's big names.

WEEKLY UPDATE FROM TEGAN...

Hey everyone!

This week was my first week back after being sick so it was quite challenging! It was so fun though. On Monday my Cardio class dressed in our pajamas. This is because we are going to have a themed Cardio lesson each week, just to make it more fun.

In ballet we had a very theory based lesson where we learnt a lot about technique which I was really happy with. She let us ask a lot of questions and taught us how to stand and what posture we are supposed to have.

In Acro we are learning how to do baranees (no handed cartwheel). Because I’ve missed two acro lessons I’m still in the process of doing one-handed cartwheels but it’s so crazy how quickly you learn how to do different tricks. It’s so scary but so fun!
I’m now ready for another week back at school doing all the fun things.

We are also all receiving a disc which is a full course on how to speak with an American accent. This is just to help us in the future with auditions because in lot of musicals or TV shows you are required to be able to speak in an American accent.

Love Teges

P.S I was so thrilled to be able to go home for the Forbes concert. Thank you so much to everyone for letting me be a part of it! It was so nice to dance with Stepping Out again.

Xxx