6 January 2025 - 10 January 2025 0900
Dance Fest 25 - Summer Workshop
Participate in our 5 day summer workshop in Adelaide!
The Royal Academy of Dance and South Australia Regional Advisory Panel is excited to invite students from across Australia to enrol in DANCE Fest 25, South Australia’s biggest and brightest Summer School for dancers!
Students will be taught by an exciting Australian faculty in classical, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, Broadway jazz, tap, commercial and hip hop. Classical stream students (13+ years and above) will be offered Pilates, stretch and conditioning, character, repertoire and Rambert grades.
Venue:
199 FRANKLIN STREET,
ADELAIDE
SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5000
For more information contact:
Philippa Lynas
Regional Manager South Australia, Western Australia & Northern Territory
E: plynas@rad.org.au
T: 0426 723 557
Key Information
| Level | Age | Time | Duration | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open to all methods of training | 7+ to adult | 0900 | 7hrs 15min | $135 - $485 See TryBooking for details |
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Meet the Faculty
Mitchell Rayner
Mitchell began formal dance lessons in Newcastle at the age of 13 studying classical, jazz, contemporary and character dance. He joined The Australian Ballet School in 2005 where after 3 years of study he obtained an Advanced Diploma of Dance. In 2008 Mitchell secured a contract with The Australian Ballet. Mitchell has taught for Sydney Dance Company, The Australian Ballet, The Royal Academy of Dance, Ballet Without Borders, Brent Street, Pymble Ladies’ College and Tanya Pearson Academy.
Anna Rybakova
Anna is a well skilled choreographer, with experience in various dance styles (character dance, ballet, contemporary, jazz, ballroom dance). She is so passionate about the art of dance, and her whole life she has worked as a dancer with many choreographers, which gave her a great experience in developing dance skills as well as creating the choreography.
Chylie Cooper
Chylie has taught at Australian Dance Theatre and at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. Prior to her teaching career she danced with WAB, Sydney Dance Company, and Australian Dance Theatre, amongst others.
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Daniel Jaber
Daniel Jaber has been a performer with Garry Stewart’s Australian Dance Theatre. In 2013 he was commissioned to create a new work on the company, ‘Nought’ which was subsequently nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Choreography in a Ballet or Physical Theatre work and won Best New Work and Most Outstanding Choreography in the 2014 Dance Australia Critics Survey Awards. He has guest performed with National Theatre Mannheim, Stadttheatre Freiburg and BalletLab. He has choreographed work for companies such as: Expressions Dance Company (now Australasian Dance Collective), Houston Ballet 2, Qantas, Australian Tourism Awards, Adelaide Fashion Festival, Dubai Festival City and Dance Moms. He has lectured and created student works at notable institutions: New Zealand School of Dance, Queensland University of Technology, Adelaide College of the Arts and Transit Dance.
Jayson Smart
Mr. Jayson Smart has been offering quality tuition to dance students for over 30 years with many former students going onto tertiary training and professional dance careers. Unlimited Feet Performing Arts began in Murray Bridge & Glenunga in 1993 after Jayson purchased the Pamela Phillips School of Ballet. In 2005, Jayson purchased the Ecole de Ballet studio & ran UFPA in the Morphett Vale studio for 16 years. Unlimited Feet Performing Arts studio now offers classes in Murray Bridge. In 2018, Jayson was awarded the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing Leslie P. Newman Award for “Outstanding Service to Dance”
Jenni Guest
Jenni has combined her formative years as a Classical Ballet Student/Amateur performer with her academic years of pre and post graduate Physiotherapy study resulting in a passionate focus on Dance Injury / Education and Prevention. As a long standing member of The International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, Jenni remains up to date with the current research in Dance Medicine, treatment and preventative methodology. She holds strong beliefs in working with the junior dancers through their developmental years to achieve maximum potential, as well as following through with the tertiary students and professional performers in maintenance programs, specific rehabilitation and injury prevention protocols. Additional dance related work includes Assessor for the Cecchetti Method Teachers qualification, lecturer for the Royal Academy of Dance (SA Chapter), Anatomy lecturer for Certificate 2,3 and 4 in Dance and guest Pilates Instructor for the RAD. Jenni is a Director of Smart Health Training and Services, a private allied health / medical centre which works strongly on the philosophy for a collaborative care model. Here, she runs the Smart Dancer program, the Smart Rower program and Pilates teacher training.
Lilyana Lloyd
Originally from Adelaide, Lilyana trained at the Barbara Jayne Dance Centre before continuing her studies at the Australian Ballet School from level 5, graduating in level 8. Whilst at the school Lilyana had the opportunity to train at the Canada’s National Ballet School as an exchange student. Lilyana performed in The Australian Ballet Regional Tour of Giselle. After graduating with a Diploma in Dance, Advanced Diploma in Dance and Graduate Diploma in Classical Ballet, Lilyana went on to join the Queensland Ballet in 2018. Returning back home to Adelaide, Lilyana has shared her passion of ballet through teaching. Coaching the ‘Billy’s’ in Billy Elliot during their Adelaide season and currently teaching classical ballet to the Musical Theatre students of the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Most recently she toured Australia in ‘An American In Paris’ as Dance Captain/Swing. Credits: - Queensland Ballet (2018) - La Bayadére (Greg Horsman), Firebird (Liam Scarlett), Carmen (Carlos Acosta), Swan Lake, Nutcracker & Cinderella (Ben Stevenson OBE), Parts per Million (Craig Davidson), B-Sides (Jack Lister) - The Australian Ballet School (2014-2017) - Almost (Graeme Murphy), Serenade (George Balanchine), Nutcracker, Snow Queens, Paquita, Giselle
Maddie MacArthur
Maddie started her dance training at a young age at Centre Stage Dance in New Jersey. Maddie has been involved in the Adelaide performing arts scene for many years, and completed her Diploma of Dance (Transit Dance, Melbourne) in 2019. She has performed alongside German & Accordion player Hans in A night at the Symp-Honey as a dancer and singer (Adelaide Fringe Festival 2022) and performed in Singapore as an acrobat in a Young Circus Time (2014). Recently she has performed in Postcard from Around the World (Shane International Production) at the Royal Adelaide Show (2022) and continues to perform at corporate events around Australia with Hans and Ding Productions.