Sydney Dance Company September/October School Holidays 2 days $155 Contemporary Lyrical For ages 8 to 18 Timetable Ages 8 – 10 Elementary Monday 21 September Tuesday 22 September 9.30am-10.00am Registration 10.00am-11.15am BALLET BARRE with Gina BALLET BARRE with Gina 11.15am-11.30am Morning recess Morning recess 11.30am-12.45pm CONTEMPORARY with Shelley CONTEMPORARY with Shelley 12.45pm-1.30pm Lunch break Lunch break 1.30pm-2.45pm LYRICAL with Ellen LYRICAL with Ellen 2.45pm-4.00pm MODERN with Xenia MODERN with Xenia Ages 11-13 Intermediate Monday 28 September Tuesday 29 September 9.30am-10.00am Registration 10.00am-11.15am CONTEMPORARY with Loredo CONTEMPORARY with Loredo 11.15am-11.30am Morning recess Morning recess 11.30am-12.45pm LYRICAL with Lauren LYRICAL with Lauren 12.45pm-1.30pm Lunch break Lunch break 1.30pm-2.45pm LYRICAL with Juliette CONTEMPORARY with Jason 2.45pm-4.00pm LYRICAL with Juliette CONTEMPORARY with Jason Ages 14-18 Intermediate/Advanced Monday 28 September Tuesday 29 September 9.30am-10.00am Registration 10.00am-11.15am LYRICAL with Lauren LYRICAL with Lauren 11.15am-11.30am Morning recess Morning recess 11.30am-12.45pm CONTEMPORARY with Loredo CONTEMPORARY with Loredo 12.45pm-1.30pm Lunch break Lunch break 1.30pm-2.45pm MASTERCLASS with Thomas LYRICAL with Juliette 2.45pm-4.00pm REPERTOIRE with Thomas LYRICAL with Juliette Faculty Ellen Simpson — Jazz Shelley Moore – Contemporary Ellen's recent musical theatre credits include Andrew Lloyd Shelley is trained in Classical Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz Webber's “Love Never Dies” choreographed by Graeme and acrobatics. She has completed two tertiary degrees - Murphy and she toured Australia as an original ensemble Bachelor of Arts (Media & Communications) and a cast member of "Wicked", also covering the role of Bachelor of Dance/Bachelor of Education, both from Nessarose. Ellen grew up in New Zealand and started ballet UNSW and with Distinction. Since graduating, Shelley has lessons when she was 5 years old. She has attained her featured in television commercials for Samsung, KFC, ARAD letters for completing her advanced 2 work in Bonds and AMP, performed at numerous high profile classical ballet, her NZAMD solo seal diploma in modern events such as the ARIA Awards Nights and with jazz and was awarded the NZAMD National Jazz Dancing Melbourne-based contemporary dance company, Chunky Title and has since received various scholarships in all Move. Shelley enjoys a wide variety of choreographic and styles of dance. Early Musical Theatre roles include “Roxy” teaching projects such as invited Choreographer for the in the 2005 tour or “Chicago” and “Mary Jane” in the Australian Girls Choir on their recent International Tour to musical Big River. Her television and film credits include Canada and the USA and delivering Contemporary The Strip, Mao’s Last Dancer and Closer (chosen for workshops at National and International RAD Summer competition at the Cannes Film Festival). Ellen has recently Schools. Shelley also choreographs for many competition choreographed a production of Miss Saigon and plays groups and soloists across Sydney, enjoying great success Renee Geyer in Channel 7’s Molly Meldrum mini series. at several major eisteddfods. Gina Brescianini – Ballet Xenia Goodwin – Modern Xenia played the lead role of Tara in the ABC Television Series Gina was born in Sydney and trained at the McDonald “Dance Academy”, an award winning and internationally College and the Australian Ballet School. She joined the acclaimed teen drama series, shown worldwide in Australian Ballet in 2001, was promoted to Choryphee in countries such as Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Xenia 2005 and to Soloist in 2007. During her ten years with the was selected to play a leading role in Dance Academy in Australian Ballet, Gina has performed all the major classic 2009 when she was 16 years old and went on to appear in ballets and many One Act and Contemporary works by all 65 episodes of the three-series production over several Australia’s leading and international choreographers such years. Xenia has been training in the Cecchetti method of as Murphy, Page, Baynes, McGregor, Ratmansky, Wright, Classical Ballet at the Valerie Jenkins Academy of Ballet Fonte and Wheeldon. Gina has also appeared as a Principal since the age of 9. She also studied full-time at Tanya Guest artist with the English National ballet in 2009 in their Pearson’s Classical Coaching Academy where she travelled London and Barcelona seasons. Gina also guested in the to New York with the Academy to perform at the Youth Fall for Dance season in New York in 2009. Gina has America Grand Prix. She continues to pursue her passion performed on many international stages in Paris, London, for the performing arts, having recently performed at the Barcelona, New York, Cardiff, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Cecchetti Ballet Australia National Conference in Sydney . Nagoya. Gina was awarded the Telstra Young Ballet Dancer of the year in 2006. Faculty Loredo Malcolm – Contemporary Juliette Verne “Jet” – Lyrical Loredo Malcolm started training at the age of nine at Ashe Jet is one of Australia’s top choreographers, working as Caribbean Performing Arts in Jamaica. He moved to New choreographic consultant, featured choreographer/mentor York to pursue further training, graduating with a and audition judge on the hit TV Series So You Think You Certificate in Dance and Performing Arts. Loredo then Can Dance Australia Season 1- 4, through to other TV understudied the role of Simba in Disney's The Lion King shows: Celebrity Apprentice, X Factor, Australia’s Top for four years touring Australia, Shanghai, and London's Model and the list goes on. Juliette’s performing credits West End. In 2009 Loredo made it into the Top 9 dancers include: A New York Radio City Music Hall Rockette, Elton on Channel 10’s, So You Think You Can Dance. Following John, Liza Minelli, The Lion King, Starlight Express, Grease, this, Loredo joined the cast of Chicago The Musical, playing Baz Luhrmann’s feature film Moulin Rouge, New York the Spirit of Bob Fosse and travelled to Singapore and then Knicks Cheerleader at Madison Square Garden, Destiny's Hong Kong. Loredo also performed with Hairspray The Child Australia Tour, Usher and many more. Most recently Musical as an ensemble dancer and understudy to Jet choreographed Snow White, starring Magda Szubanski, Seaweed. He then went on to tour with the Australian Sir Cliff Richard and Kyle Sandilands and Aladdin starring production of Wicked the Musical. Loredo also has his own Beau Ryan, Dicko and an array of So You Think You Can Contemporary Company LOcREaDO Dance Company which Dance dancers with the amazing Bonnie Lythgoe. performs in venues such as NIDA and Theatre Works, Melbourne. Jason Winters – Contemporary Lauren Seymour – Lyrical Jason trained with a full scholarship at Southern Ballet Lauren was a Top 10 Finalist on So You Think You Can Theater and The Demetrius Klein Dance Ensemble training Dance Australia’s Season 4 in 2014. She made it all the way in Graham, Limon, Horton, and Cunningham Techniques. to the Grand Final, winning Runner-Up for the series. Jason gained an apprenticeship with The DK Modern Dance Lauren studied at Newtown High School of Performing Arts Company in South Florida and then moved to the corps de where she spent 6 years studying Contemporary & Ballet ballet, and eventually a soloist position with SBT in and was also part of the Performing Arts Company. Lauren Orlando, Florida. After three years as a professional in the continued her studies at Brent Street Full time and ballet world, Jason embarked on a 10 year relationship attained her Certificate IV in dance. Throughout the year with The Walt Disney World Company in Orlando, Florida Lauren also landed a role in George Millers motion picture and Tokyo Disneyland, Japan. He was a dancer/principal in "Happy Feet 2" where she worked under the instruction of 9 full-length shows including Beauty & the Beast and Lion Wade Robson. Other film and television credits include; King. He was choreographer/dancer in the dance company the motion picture "Goddess" choreographed by Kelley of acclaimed choreographer MIA MICHAELS and continued Abbey. Lauren has worked with choreographers Tannos + to assist Mia Michaels on many global projects including Choice in various productions and continues to be a busy “So You Think You Can Dance” America & Canada, and the commercial dancer and teacher in Sydney. renowned Cirque de Soleil’s “DELIRIUM”. Faculty MERCHANDISE OFFER School holiday workshop offer! See our new range at our merchandise store from mid August and receive 10% off all online orders before 15 September. There are hoodies, leggings, track pants, baseball tees, and more! Quote the promo code SDC10 . shop.sydneydancecompany.com Thomas Bradley – Contemporary Masterclass & Repertoire Thomas originally comes from Cootamundra, regional NSW, where he received his early dance training in Jazz and Ballet. Thomas’ later training was at the VCA Secondary School (2008) on a full scholarship, and the NZ School of Dance (2009-2011). While at VCASS he performed with the Melbourne Ballet Company, Altona City Theatre production of CATS (7 month period) and placed third at the Australian Choreographic Competition. In 2010 Thomas took his solo Manipulated Living to Tempo, New Zealand Festival of Dance where he was nominated for ‘Best Choreography by an Emerging Artist’, ‘Most Inspiring Performance’ and won ‘Best Performance by an Emerging Male Artist’. Thomas also featured as a soloist in the 2010 NZSD Graduation Season performing an excerpt of Michael Parmenter’s Rhapsodysolo. Thomas returned to Tempo in 2011 with a new solo Seam, and an excerpt of his piece Shepherd, from NZSD Choreographic Season. In his final year at the NZSD, Thomas spent a short period with Australian Dance Theatre (Adelaide) performing excerpts of Be Your Self.