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About BDC Dance Studios

Located within the City of Ashwood, BDC Dance Studios is a comprehensive dance facility for students from preschool age to adult. 

We have a range of dance styles on offer. Students can join as a fun hobby, participate in RAD exams or join our performance teams to step out in front of a crowd. 

The teachers at BDC Dance Studios have a vast range of experience across disciplines. Our collective approach is to share our love of dance in a nurturing, empathetic and enthusiastic environment. 

As well as dance lessons, we offer DANCESTEP, an assistant teacher training program to students aged 10 and above to assist and teach dance classes.

Enrol your child for group lessons or book private sessions with one of our teachers.

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Believe. Dream. Create.

BELIEVE

We believe in communication through kindness, empathy and enthusiasm

All interactions within our community are based on kindness and empathy. We want all who join us at BDC to have a positive experience. 

From the way our teachers interact with students to the information sent to parents from our admin staff, and our expectations of how students treat each other. Even in times of conflict there is always a choice of how to approach a resolution. We choose to be kind. 

DREAM

We dream of promoting sustainable practices for ourselves and the world we inhabit. 

With the right outlook, the gift of dance can last a lifetime. We take safe dance practice and injury management seriously, even at a recreational level. Our students learn about how to look after their own bodies to work with their individual strengths and around limitations. An injury does not mean game over for dance, it means a dancer needs to develop more sustainable habits to heal and progress beyond a setback.

For the world around us, we use sustainable practices within our business to lead the younger generation by example. A few include:

  • Clearly marked bins for recyclable items
  • Koh and Earth’s Choice cleaning products
  • Thank You hand sanitiser
  • Who Gives a Crap recycled toilet paper
  • No single-use plastic items in our kitchen
  • 90% of communications are digital
  • Recycled paper is used for all printed material

We don’t need a few people doing Zero Waste perfectly, we need thousands of people making small changes that will influence others. BDC Dance Studios is committed to making those small changes.

CREATE

We create opportunities for educating minds and bodies to grow amazing human beings.

The majority of our student base is children and young adults. It is a huge privilege to be entrusted with the care of these young minds.

The teaching staff at our studio approach all our students with a combination of kindness, empathy and enthusiasm to encourage learning and skills acquisition in a holistic manner that highlights the role of dance in the development of the whole person; physically, mentally and socially.

We are aiming to help little humans develop life skills that will serve them in the long run, we just happen to be teaching these skills through the medium of dance because that’s what we love. Many of our students feel that dance is their second home. It’s their escape – worries and stresses are left at the door and the distractions of the world outside or on their phone disappear while they dance.

Our Teachers

Dance teachers Ashwood

Natalie Stubbs

Principal, Teacher and Coordinator of Ballet
Taking her first ballet class at age three in the small, West Australian town of Esperance, Natalie was one of those children who thrived on ballet and never looked back.…
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Olivia Manson

Assistant Principal, Teacher and Competition Team Manager
Olivia’s passion is sharing her love for dancing with all her students. She believes that the dance studio is a place where children can learn important life skills as well…
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Nickely Burke

Teacher and Contemporary Coordinator
Nickely has been teaching at BDC Dance Studios since 2012. Prior to this she was based in the UK where she opened Oxford Contemporary Dance School in 1994 and worked…
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Vanessa Brown

Teacher
Vanessa grew up in the regional Victorian town of Mildura and started ballet classes at the age of seven.  She completed RAD exams both recreational and vocational, finishing Grade 8…
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Ashleigh Mayne

Teacher
Ashleigh started taking jazz classes at BDC at the age of 9 and fell in love with the way it allowed her to perform and bring happiness to others. She…
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Myra Davidson

Teacher
Myra is a singer, dancer and actor, and fell in love with performing when she was first enrolled at BDC Dance Studios at the age of 4. Having recently completed…
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Sarah Browne

Teacher
Sarah began dancing at the age of 3 at BDC Dance studios before training at The Dance Studio from the age of 5 to 18. She has completed all Royal…
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Caroline Ettiene

Teacher
Caroline started ballet when she was 6 years old and started jazz and contemporary two years later. She remained at her local ballet school for eight years and at the…
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Bianca Phillips

Teacher
Bianca began dancing at age 4 and fell in love with it before moving to BDC at age 11 and never looking back. Over her time, Bianca has undertaken numerous…
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Amy Keegan

Teacher
Amy started as a student at BDC Dance Studios from the age of 4, and over her years has taken classes in jazz, contemporary, hip hop, ballet, tap and VCE…
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Rachel Street

Teacher
Rachel began dancing at BDC in 2008, beginning with ballet. She has since ventured into a range of other styles, including jazz, contemporary, tap, hip hop, and joined the competition…
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Tash Bowers

Teacher
An avid storyteller and performer, Tash has been dancing since the age of 5, and never stopped! Specialising in Street – Style Tap and Contemporary Dance, Tash has learned a…
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Emily Bourke

Teacher
Emily embarked on her journey at BDC at the age of 8, setting the stage for her evolution into the passionate dancer she is today. She undertook jazz, hip hop,…
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Anna Street

Teacher
Anna is a passionate performer and artist who first found her love for dance and drama at the age of 4 at BDC Dance Studios. Anna started in Ballet and…
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Dee Whittington

Drama and Musical Theatre Coordinator and Teacher
Dee is a warm and vibrant youth-centred professional with over 40 years of experience in the world of the arts. For the past 21 years, she has been sharing her…
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