meet the team
Kate is the founding director of Dance Zone Productions and has been operating the company since 2005.
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Known for her bright and vivacious energy on stage and on camera, as a dancer, actor and musician, Kate has over 20 years of training/performance experience and 14 years of teaching experience. Motivated by her passion to bring positivity, confidence and success to the next generation of dancers, Kate’s biggest driving force is seeing students grow from fresh shakers and movers into well trained, confident performers.
ACHIEVEMENTS
2nd Place with LM's T.O.P. Team at the Hong Kong Latin World Championships (2016)
1st Place (NSW) with LM's T.O.P Team at the Australian Salsa Open (2015)
2nd Place (Australia) with LM's T.O.P Team at the Australian Salsa Open (2015)
Award for 'Excellence In Choreography' at the 2011 Rock Eisteddfod Challenge (2011)
1st Place (Australia) Amateur Salsa couples at the Australia Latin Dance Championship (2010)
1st Place (Australia) Professional Stage Magic Championships (2002)
Finalist at the Australian Open Entertainment Championships (2002)
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Christine
Christine’s dance and teaching experience is a diverse combination of Jazz, JFH, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Salsa, Bachata, Cha Cha, Zouk, Kizomba, Dancehall, Afro & Reggaeton. Over the past 10 years she has achieved numerous titles competing and performing at National and International events in the Latin Dance Scene.
Christine’s energetic personality shines through in both her teaching and performing. Her power, speed and fireball energy on stage are sure to entertain any audience. She has recently been part of the brand new dance show & competition on the Channel 7 Network, “Danceboss” Australia 2018, as a contestant in which her group placed 4th.
Some achievements include: 2014 1st Place Australian Semi-Pro Salsa Couple Champion 2014 1st Place Australian Salsa Open Professional Teams Champion 2015 1st Place Open Latin Teams (Cha Cha) Champion, World Salsa Solo, Brisbane 2016 2nd Place Professional Salsa Teams, Hong Kong World Salsa Championship 2016 Australian Salsa Professional Couples Champion, World Salsa Solo, Brisbane 2017 Winner of Australia’s Best Latin Couple “Best Choreography” 2017 2nd Place Open Salsa Shines Duo 2019 3rd place Open Salsa Shines Teams (TOP Team) – World Salsa Solo 2019 3rd place Open Reggaeton Teams – World Salsa Solo 2019 2nd place Reggaeton Duets – World Salsa Solo
Claudia
Claudia has been dancing for about twelve years as well as teaching and assistant teaching for five years.
During her time training, Claudia was able to become an assistant teacher while at school and find her love for sharing her passion. Her favourite style to dance and choreograph is contemporary and she loves creating jazz and musical theatre pieces as well.
Claudia has been a competitive dancer for most of her dance life and loves to perform and compete on stage. During her final year of school, was she the Dance Captain of her studio and loved being a role model for the other students and dancers. She learnt how to lead a team and what it takes to move forward and improve as both an individual dancer and as a team.
After graduation, she moved to Melbourne to complete her Certificate Four in Dance and her Certificate Four in Dance Teaching and Management. This was one of the best years of her life and she has taken so much from what she learnt from both courses into her teaching practice.
She cannot wait to start her teaching journey with DZP and is so excited to continue to learn and grow with this amazing group of people and students.
Justin
Justin Jarrett is a world champion Dancer with 8 years of professional experience in the entertainment industry.
From live shows 6 days a week, to writing kids entertainment and working in television and film. Justin has worked and performed in 7 countries and counting.
Justin's focus when teaching is on connection, presence, confidence and most importantly fun!
Mam
Mam's passion for the performing arts led her to the dance floor at the young age of 5, starting with traditional Thai dance, then discovering the world of hip hop, contemporary, jazz, popping, break dancing and salsa.
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She works and trains with attention to detail, preparedness and never being afraid to take on a challenge, whether it be a new style of dance, competition or creating her own choreographies and video projects.
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While training and competing with DZP from the age of 6, she learnt hip hop and popping from industry leaders including Poppin Jack, Kboogz and Sam Beazley, as well as salsa with Kate Barnes and Christine Rymer. She is excited to be joining the teaching team this year as both a lead and assistant instructor!
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Mam's other interests include creating music through playing the guitar, piano and singing. She is also training to be an occupational therapist.
Rhiannon
Rhiannon has been dancing competitively since she was 9 years old. She has danced many styles including jazz, ballet, contemporary, tap, musical theatre, hip hop and acrobatics.
Rhiannon completed her Certificate IV in Dance in 2021 which has taught her a lot about dance and becoming a supportive and enthusiastic teacher.
During her dance life Rhiannon has achieved places at a variety of competitions including competing at AASCF Nationals in 2022 with Macquarie University Dance Club.
Rhiannon is eager to continue to learn and pass on her dance knowledge to the younger generations.
Sophie
Sophie started dancing at the age of two years old in Sydney, Australia. At five years old she moved to Hong Kong, where she continued dancing for the subsequent decade. Sophie is trained and examined in a multitude of styles including but not limited to jazz, ballet, contemporary, as well as musical theatre.
Growing up Sophie also did a lot of stage and theatre performing. At the eight years old she was cast in the professional West End stage production of the musical Annie in the lead role. Following this she went on to do numerous professional touring productions as a child. Some of these include being cast as Alice in Alice in Wonderland and playing one of the Von Trapp children in The Sound Of Music.
At sixteen Sophie moved to Singapore where she began to compete with her studio. Her biggest competition to date was when she flew to LA to compete with dancers from all over the world, which her studio scored highly at.
Sophie has been teaching dance since the age of thirteen when she started running her own classes in Hong Kong for kids within her neighbourhood. This progressed when she moved to Singapore into a business, where she ran five classes weekly around her high school commitments. Sophie moved back to Australia two years ago to attend The University of Sydney, where she is currently studying Speech Pathology. Sophie loves to work with kids, and hopes to work in this profession one day whilst still maintaining her love of dance.
Tamara
Tamara is a professional dancer, teacher and graduate of the University of Arts in Argentina. She has extensive experience in teaching both children and adults in classical dance as well as jazz, hip hop, modern, tango and latin dance.
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In 2016 Tamara founded her own art, dance and pilates school in Buenos Aires. In 2018, she expanded her work, travelling to Europe to teach dance and pilates. She has worked as a dance teacher in Denmark, Tel Aviv and Sweden as well as been a regular guest instructor, teaching workshops around the world.
Tamara is also a certified reformer pilates instructor and fitness instructor.
CONTACT
Phone
1300 908 804 (Free Call)
Dance Classes
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Dance Camps
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School Dance Programs
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Postal Address
PO Box 589
Five Dock NSW 2046
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