Don’t break a leg!!
In theatres & dance studios across Australia you will hear teachers, students, dancers, technicians, stage hands calling out Chookas. An endearing word, but as a child I had no idea what it meant, I just knew I was supposed to say it. I loved it, as a young dancer...Better than any therapy
I was teaching class tonight and it was a challenging class. Lots of various needs amongst the students from a little one with a troubled home, to another who was struggling to fit in socially and the rest well they were just tired and ratty. I had pulled out all my...Supporting your dancing teenager
When I first took over the reins at Peninsula School of Dance many of my senior dancers were just tiny tots in tutus. I’ve watched them grow not just as dancers but as young adults, and I am proud of the people they are becoming. They are a credit to their parents, to...There’s no such thing as ‘different’ on the dance floor
To many of my students and parents I am just Miss Mel…Director and Dance School teacher. But there’s another side of my life beyond dance of which I am equally proud. I have a BA in Disability Studies and enjoyed a rewarding pre-dance career in the disability...