A fun and funky Jazz/Hip hop combo class for those wanting to increase skill level in these Genres. Students will warm up, learn dance technique and a routine that will be added to each week in class. Great for Primary school and Junior High school students wanting to give dance a try or get back into dance.

Commercial Dancing

Jazz/Funk/Hip Hop (Highschool)

Made popular during the 20th Century, this appealing dance style still has its place in the modern world. Learning tap dancing is ideal for young children who just love to dance and perform.

Mastering this style of dance can help with coordination, rhythm, musicality and agility. Classes are designed to suit primary schoolers and are always enjoyable!

Character

Street Tap (Highschool)

Tap (Year 6-7)

Jazz dance is a style of theatrical dance performed to popular music. We base our classes on the ADA syllabus, which is develops both dance technique and dance quality. Jazz classes will help students to improve their technique, body strength, flexibility and coordination, and students will love our engaging class content and have so much fun!
The ADA Jazz syllabus is comprehensive and also includes styles such as musical theatre, hip hop, lyrical and contemporary. Students can work towards completing their exam at the class level. Exams are optional.

Technical jazz

Jazz (Year 2-3)

A fun and funky Jazz/Hip hop combo class for those wanting to increase skill level in these Genres. Students will warm up, learn dance technique and a routine that will be added to each week in class. Great for Primary school and Junior High school students wanting to give dance a try or get back into dance.


Jazz/Funk/Hip Hop Combo (Year 3-6)

Jazz (Year 4-5)

Acrobatics is an art of dance incorporating balance, agility and motor coordination. In this class, students will learn basic gymnastic floor work and tumbling for stage performance.
Teachers at Goodhew Dance hold qualifications with Acrobatic Arts.
Emphasis is placed on strengthening and improving flexibility, both very important principles for all styles of dance. The class is based on the Acrobatic Arts syllabus, with students learning tricks including forward and backward rolls, cartwheels, handstands, walkovers, handsprings, backflips and somersaults and more in a safe environment. Pre requisite skills required.

Acrobatics

Acrobatics (Year 3-6)

Imagine your child twirling with joy, tapping with excitement, leaping with delight and full of smiles and giggles! Dance classes for young students at Goodhew Dance are designed to be enjoyed with fun and engaging lessons that your child will love to come back to each week in so many styles. 

Other

Superstars (Kinder-Year 2) - 1.5hrs

Ballet is an artistic dance form incorporating set steps and movements danced very gracefully.

Get your toes tapping!
Made popular during the 20th Century, this appealing dance style still has its place in the modern world. Learning tap dancing is ideal for young children who just love to dance and perform.

Mastering this style of dance can help with coordination, rhythm, musicality and agility. Classes are designed to suit primary schoolers and are always enjoyable!

Ballet

Classical Ballet

Ballet & Tap Tech (Kinder - Year 2)

Our musical theatre program delivers a mix of jazz, tap, contemporary and modern dance skills. Students combine their love of song with dance in these energetic and diverse classes. These lessons have a focus on fun! Jump, twirl and glide to some of Broadway’s most memorable tunes.

Singing

Musical Theatre

Musical Theatre (Kinder - Year 2)

Contemporary dance is a performance style fusing classical ballet, modern and jazz principles. It emphasises contraction and release, fall and recovery, floor work and improvisation.
Students learn simple exercises and combinations to improve on basic contemporary principles and work on learning choreography related to particular themes or music. Students are encouraged to take contemporary classes because it helps develop an understanding of music as well as improve coordination, muscle strength and flexibility.

Modern

Contemporary 

Contemporary (Year 2)

Musical Theatre (Year 3-6)

Jazz dance is a style of theatrical dance performed to popular music. We base our classes on the ADA syllabus, which is develops both dance technique and dance quality. Jazz classes will help students to improve their technique, body strength, flexibility and coordination, and students will love our engaging class content and have so much fun!


Jazz

Jazz Tech (Year 3-6)

Theatre Jazz (Highschool)

This funky style of tapping has been designed to add a modern feel to the traditional tap. Each week our Tap Jam classes will cover all the tap technique and basics, whilst also learning how to add style and personality to your tapping.
Tap Jam has a heavy focus on understanding musicality & rhythm. Learning these skills are crucial in becoming the best tapper you can be! This can be done as a stand alone tap class, or as well as our Tap Tech classes during the week to really hone in on your tapping skills and give you the extra edge!

Tap Jam (Highschool)

Ballet is an artistic dance form incorporating set steps and movements danced very gracefully.
Students learn the Cecchetti method to develop their strength and technique according to ballet principles. Studying ballet will help students to improve their musicality and presentation in all dance styles, as well as their overall posture, coordination and discipline.

We encourage all students to take at least one ballet class per week to improve posture and technique required for other styles.

Ballet (Highschool) - 1hr

Contemporary (Year 3-6)

Ready Set Acro is a collaborative acrobatic program developed with Industry Leader Acrobatic Arts, specifically designed for preschoolers.
Led by Flexy the Giraffe, Bridgie the Elephant and Flippy the Penguin, the program is developed with original music with lyric cues and focuses on three key components: Stretch, Strength, and Skills.
Stretch and Flex:
Improve flexibility and reach new limits with our fun stretching songs
Get strong and confident:
Our program focuses on building physical strength and control
Skills that impress:
From basic moves to impressive tricks, our program teaches a range of exciting AcroDance skills

READY SET ACRO - 2-5 years

Contemporary (Highschool)

Do you love to be on stage and want to be part of our performance team? The “Showgroups” at Goodhew Dance meet weekly to learn new choreography to prepare for performances, eisteddfods & local community events. Showgroup is open to all students who are attending at least 1 technical dance class per week. Pre-requisite classes can include: Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, JFH, or Boys Hip Hop

Showgroup 8/U

Showgroup 6/U

A 30 minute magical ballet experience for 2-4 year olds. Twirl our mascot will lead our little dancers through each step of the class as they learn the fundamentals of ballet.

READY SET BALLET - (2-4years)

Jazz (Year 6-7)

Grade 5 Tap (Year 7-9)

Tap (Year 2-3)

Ballet (Year 3-6)

Pre-Pointe is a pointe preparation class for ballet students interested in dancing en pointe. The class is taken barefoot. Students will work on foot/ankle articulation exercises, stretches and activities to develop core strength and the posture and body placement required to be ready for pointe shoes. Students attending this class must also be enrolled in a ballet class.

Pointe

Pre-Pointe (Year 4+)

Street tap (Y3-6)

Musical Theatre (Highschool)

Ballet (Year 1-2)

Do you love to be on stage and want to be part of our performance team? The “Showgroups” at Goodhew Dance meet weekly to learn new choreography to prepare for performances, eisteddfods & local community events. Showgroup is open to all students who are attending at least 1 technical dance class per week. Pre-requisite classes can include: Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, JFH, or Boys Hip Hop.

Showgroup 12/U

Hip Hop – street style moves and grooves with an emphasis on style, creativity, body isolation and control.

Our B’Boys learn basic break skills including popping, locking, power moves, freezes, floorwork and freestyling.
Acrobatics: Enhance your hip hop style with acro tricks such as cartwheels and handsprings, increases coordination and flexibility with the Acrobatics class that follows the Hip Hop.

Hip Hop

Boys - Hip Hop (Kinder-Year6)

TAP TECH Get your toes tapping!
Made popular during the 20th Century, this appealing dance style still has its place in the modern world. Learning tap dancing is ideal for young children who just love to dance and perform.

Mastering this style of dance can help with coordination, rhythm, musicality and agility. Classes are designed to suit primary schoolers and are always enjoyable!

Tap Tech (Highschool)

Jazz Tech (Highschool)

Superstars (Kinder-Year 2) - 2hrs

Ballet (Kinder - Year 2)

TAP TECH - Get your toes tapping!
Made popular during the 20th Century, this appealing dance style still has its place in the modern world. Learning tap dancing is ideal for young children who just love to dance and perform.

Mastering this style of dance can help with coordination, rhythm, musicality and agility. Classes are designed to suit primary schoolers and are always enjoyable!

Tap Tech (Kinder - Year 2)

Get your toes tapping!
Made popular during the 20th Century, this appealing dance style still has its place in the modern world. Learning tap dancing is ideal for young children who just love to dance and perform.

Mastering this style of dance can help with coordination, rhythm, musicality and agility. Classes are designed to suit primary schoolers and are always enjoyable!

Tap Jam (Year 3-6)

Ballet (Highschool) - 45mins

READY SET DANCE
READY SET DANCE is a one hour Ready Set Dance combo class of JAZZ, TAP, HIP HOP, SINGING and MUSIC. and a whole lot of fun!

The program caters for two levels, 2-3 years and 4-5 years.

JAZZ – Develop muscle strength, control and balance and achieve coordination milestones like skipping before going to school.

HIP HOP – Bust out some ice cold moves just like Freeze to our original hip hop tracks.

MUSIC. – Develop the musical ear, dynamics and tempo while having fun with instruments and the parachute.

SINGING – Sing like Twirl and build confidence singing on the microphone

TAP – Learn the fundamentals of tap in a playful and creative way splashing in puddles and shuffling like a penguin.

All these ingredients together create a super hour of fun!

READY SET DANCE - 2-4 years

Acrobatics is an art of dance incorporating balance, agility and motor coordination. In this class, students will learn basic gymnastic floor work and tumbling for stage performance.
Teachers at Goodhew Dance hold qualifications with Acrobatic Arts.

Emphasis is placed on strengthening and improving flexibility, both very important principles for all styles of dance. The class is based on the Acrobatic Arts syllabus, with students learning tricks including forward and backward rolls, cartwheels, handstands, walkovers, handsprings, backflips and somersaults and more in a safe environment.

 Acrobatics (Kinder-Year 3)

Hip Hop is a style of street dance incorporating a variety of popping, locking and breaking. Our Hip Hop classes allow the students to explore their own hip-hop style to popular music, keeping the students engaged and working together.
Hip-hop dance is a great tool to develop improvisation and choreographing skills, and also to experience audition style choreography.

Hip Hop (Highschool)

Had enough of jazz exam classes and ready for a workout?
A fun and fast commercial jazz dance class. You will learn jazz technique, combinations and routines inspired by what you see in clips from Beyonce and Bruno Mars and movies such as Step Up and Honey
This wonderful weekly workout will keep you fit and flexible and is great for ex dancers too – those with experience can challenge themselves by focusing on technique and style and the novice dancer can still enjoy the grooves and moves but with less detail.

Commercial Jazz (Highschool)

PRE POINTE:
Pre-Pointe is a pointe preparation class for ballet students interested in dancing en pointe. The class is taken barefoot. Students will work on foot/ankle articulation exercises, stretches and activities to develop core strength and the posture and body placement required to be ready for pointe shoes, students are assessed by a dance physiotherapist before progressing to pointe shoes. Students attending this class must also be enrolled in a ballet class.

POINTE:
Pointe class for students taking at least one ballet class who have been assessed by a dance physio.

Pointe/Pre-Pointe (Highschool)

Acrobatics (Kinder - Year 2)

READY SET DANCE is a one hour Ready Set Dance combo class of JAZZ, TAP, HIP HOP, SINGING and MUSIC. and a whole lot of fun!

The program caters for two levels, 2-3 years and 4-5 years.

JAZZ – Develop muscle strength, control and balance and achieve coordination milestones like skipping before going to school.

HIP HOP – Bust out some ice cold moves just like Freeze to our original hip hop tracks.

MUSIC. – Develop the musical ear, dynamics and tempo while having fun with instruments and the parachute.

SINGING – Sing like Twirl and build confidence singing on the microphone

TAP – Learn the fundamentals of tap in a playful and creative way splashing in puddles and shuffling like a penguin.

All these ingredients together create a super hour of fun!

READY SET DANCE - 2-5 years

Jazz dance is a style of theatrical dance performed to popular music. We base our classes on the ADA syllabus, which is develops both dance technique and dance quality. Jazz classes will help students to improve their technique, body strength, flexibility and coordination, and students will love our engaging class content and have so much fun!

Made popular during the 20th Century, this appealing dance style still has its place in the modern world. Learning tap dancing is ideal for young children who just love to dance and perform. Mastering this style of dance can help with coordination, rhythm, musicality and agility. Classes are designed to suit primary schoolers and are always enjoyable!

Jazz & Tap (Year 1-2)

Kinder ballet

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Goodhew Dance is one of the leading dance institutions in Sydney’s inner suburbs. At our studio, we aim to encourage a widespread love of dance, welcoming children and adults who can’t help but feel the rhythm!

As a family operated business established in 1989, we are so proud of our students, their lifetime friendships and everything they achieve.
Located in Alexandria, Goodhew Dance is a comprehensive dance school for children of all ages. We offer a wide range of styles so our students can choose one or a myriad of styles and be taught in a professional but fun, and engaging way.

Technical Training

Limber / Strength and Conditioning

Kizomba

Mambo

Stretch & Conditioning

Adult Dance

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QUALIFICATIONS-
Cert IV in Dance, ADA Elementary Tap and Jazz, READY SET DANCE and READY SET BALLET Accreditation, Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences (HONOURS) Criminology I love getting to be a part of the journey’s of the students we see grow up at the studio and become not just amazing performers but amazing people. This was something I experienced for myself growing up at Goodhew and its really special to be a part of.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT MISS BRITTANY:
I collect all of the tickets from every musical that I have been to!

QUALIFICATIONS – READY SET DANCE Teacher
Currently studying CUA50113 Diploma of Dance (Elite Performance) @ Brent Street. I love that Goodhew is a very family
orientated dance school. It feels like my second home and the friendships I’ve made through this studio are friendships for life.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT MISS LEXIE:
I love doing makeup. The art of transforming the face is another creative outlet for me.

QUALIFICATIONS – Currently studying ADA Pre elementary Jazz
I love working with the students and seeing them improve!

SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT MISS CHLOE:
I really love the Harry Potter books.

QUALIFICATIONS- ADA Pre Elementary Tap, READY SET DANCE Teacher Currently working towards my Certificate IV in dance at Ettingshausens Pro and completing Full time studies there
during 2021.
I love teaching at Goodhew because of the amazing relationship I have, not only with my peers and students, but also with the other teachers and the amazing owners of this family orientated dance school. It is the highlight of my week to come and pass on my knowledge of dance to my students and watch them grow and improve every week !
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT MISS RUBY:
Most people don’t know that my middle name is Starr! – Ruby Starr Maclure.

QUALIFICATIONS - Certificate IV in dance & Diploma in Musical Theatre, READY SET DANCE and READY SET BALLET Accreditation I love teaching at Goodhew because I love all the passionate kids. Teaching at Goodhew puts a smile on my face every-time. The environment is so friendly and welcoming and everyone always works hard and has a fun time doing it.

QUALIFICATIONS – BEd (PDHPE), ADA – Pre Elementary (Tap) READY SET DANCE. I love that the students at Goodhew come into class willing to learn and constantly push themselves to be better dancers.

Achievement in exams is a main focus at Goodhew Dance – it advances the technique of all dancers. We encourage students to find joy in dancing through lifelong friendships and do not focus on the competitiveness that the dance world can sometimes offer. Most of all, i love that everyone at Goodhew is part of a family that loves and supports each other.

QUALIFICATIONS – READY SET DANCE Accredited, Acro Dancer Certification, Qualified Make Up Artist, Licensed Real Estate Agent

I love being with my life long friends, the

support I receive from my fellow teachers , being a role model for up and coming teachers and the love I receive from our students – watching them grow and develop is an amazing feeling.

QUALIFICATIONS – ADA Elementary Jazz and Tap

Miss Gen has been a part of our Goodhew family for an epic 30 years! Her favourite style of dance is Tap. Miss Gen loves the family feel at the studio and how encouraging and passionate everyone is about dance and teaching. She loves passing on her passion and some great life skills to her students, watching their hard work flourish!

Australian performer and singer, Ana Maria Belo has worked on stage and screen. Ana is also a gifted writer, producing short films for international audiences.

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LEXIE MAV

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