Our Gracious Northcote Teachers

~ Miss Neroli ~
~ Mr Grant ~ Miss Chimene ~ Miss Hayley R ~
~ Miss Maria ~ Miss Gabby ~ Miss Hayley A ~

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Miss Neroli! (Rhymes with Merrily!)

Also known as Miss Lollipop!

Northcote Studio Head Teacher and Manager.

Teaching Fairy Ballet, Fairy Tap, Fairy Jazz, Funky Jazz, Hip Hop, Glittery Tap and Glamorous Ballet!

Neroli Jamieson started dancing at an early age and was trained in ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap and national character. At 16 years old she completed her British Ballet Organisation (BBO) Advanced exam with Honours and was awarded a scholarship to attend The McDonald College in Sydney. She graduated in 2004 with the Highest Academic Achievement in both Music and Drama.

Neroli furthered her studies at the Queensland University of Technology and graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) with Distinction.

In 2008 she appeared in The Shape of Things to Come, an installation piece by Shaaron Boughen and The Mud Basin by emerging choreographer Ianthe Goodwin-Brickhill for the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts Bell Tower II Series.

2009 has seen Neroli move to Melbourne to further her dance career. She performed a self-choreographed piece Stay With Me for Revive – Victorian Bushfire Appeal as well as two short works Carried to The Table and Aguanile with The Latitude Group. She is currently involved in freelance teaching and choreography as well as working with emerging company Look Left Dance Theatre.

Neroli is enjoying being part of the Glittery Tapping wonderland and loves sharing sparkling energy with so many little fairies!

 

Mr. Grant!

Also known as Mr. Galaxy!

Teaching Singing, Tap and Jazz!

Mr Grant a fabulous new addition to the glamorous and exotic Northcote Studio, he recently tore up the stage in the Australian production of Billy Elliot – the Musical, for which he received the highly commended “Gypsy Cloak” Award. Mr Grant also received this honour for ” A Chorus Line”.
He has acted, danced and sung his way through 20 musicals and was nominated for a Green Room Award for his choreographic work on Graeme Base’s The Sign of the Seahorse.
Mr Galaxy’s extensive performing arts experience encompasses music theatre, video clips (Including Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin’ Something), television, film and corporate entertainment. He holds the experience of working with Sammy Davis Jnr on his Australian tour as the highlight of his career work.
Mr Grant has immersed himself into the Glittery Tapping Wonderland and is ecstatic to be passing on his knowledge and experience to all our wonderful stars and starlets.

Miss Hayley!

Also known as Miss Butterfly!
Teaching Fairy Ballet, Fairy Tap and Fairy Jazz!

Miss Hayley has danced since she was 2 years old, but her Mum says that when she took Hayley as a baby to her older sister to dancing class, Miss Hayley would bop in time with her big sisters dancing music.
Miss Butterfly started her dancing career with Jazz and Song & Dance when she was only 2 years old! And Miss Hayley’s competed in her  first competition when she had just turned 3!

Miss Hayley started Ballet when she turned 7 and started  tapping at age 13. Miss Butterfly loves to dance it fills her with such happiness, she couldn’t ever imagine her life without it

More recently Miss Hayley has completed 3 years of full time training at Jason Coleman’s Ministry of Dance, and at Dance Factory.
She has also Completed RAD level Advance 1 with Distinction,
And most recently Miss Butterfly has danced her way into the Glittery Tapping Wonderland and is loving embracing her new found fairyness!

Miss Chimene!

Also known as Miss Sweetie Pie!
Teaching Fairy Ballet, Fairy Tap and Fairy Jazz!

Miss Sweetie Pie has been dancing ever since her first dance class when she was six years old.
A dedicated student, she couldn’t stop herself (and still can’t) from leaping down supermarket aisles, practicing plies in the lounge-room and twirling in between her day-to-day activities.
She has danced across the globe to New Zealand, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom and throughout Australia.
Miss Sweetie Pie hopes to encourage fairy ballerinas to have a life-long passion for creative play and the ever illusive and intangible art form of dance.

Miss Gabby!

Also known as Miss Peach Blossom!
Teaching Fairy Ballet, Fairy Tap and Fairy Jazz!

Miss Peach Blossom began dancing at the age of three as she wanted to be a fairy when she grew up.

She moved on to study at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School on a six year scholarship, completing her Certificate II in Dance.

Miss Gabby then went on to train full time at Urban Dance Centre in Sydney, graduating with a Certificate IV in Performing Arts.

With hopes to work in Musical Theatre, Gabby enjoys auditioning for shows and loves teaching the stars of the future!

Miss Peach Blossom loves her new Glittery world at the Glittery Tapping Wonderland. Her new home!

Photo to come!

Miss Maria!

Also known as Miss Hummingbird!
Teaching Singing Ballet, Tap and  Jazz!

Maria, aka Miss Hummingbird, started dancing in 1999 and has not stopped since!

Living in California, she has dabbled in the professional dance and acting industry while earning her Bachelor of Arts in Dance.

Soon after, she moved across the sea to Melbourne, where she has been teaching for 3 years, so far.

Miss Hummingbird cannot wait to play, dance, and tap with you in her magical classes!