We aim to nurture a love of dance in our students whilst aspiring to develop a high level of technique and artistry.

Our teaching staff, all highly qualified professionals, strive to create a positive and encouraging atmosphere to allow each student to reach their full potential and develop friendships and social skills.

Our expert tuition and training has helped students into prestigious ballet schools both in Australia and overseas with many of our former students now dancing and teaching professionally throughout the world.


Our personalised classes ensure we can help each student individually with the dance styles they love. Our classes cater for pre-school children through to adults with a love for dance and are offered at our fully equipped studios at Warners Bay. 

Dance school

Kinder

Classical Ballet

Pointe

Technical Training

Limber / Strength and Conditioning

Kizomba

Mambo

Ballet

Technical jazz

Stretch & Conditioning

Jazz

Modern

Contemporary 

Commercial Dancing

Hip Hop

Singing

Musical Theatre

Other

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RAD) ACID LICENTIATE TEACHER, ASSISTANT TEACHER MENTOR RAD, TEACHER MENTOR AICD AND SILVER SWANS
LICENCE


ARAD Solo Seal Adv. Teachers Diploma, RAD Examiner, RAD Mentor & Registered Teacher
Founder of the Robyn Hick School of Dancing, now Petitestars Preschool Dance Academy, in 1974 and now specialising in coaching ballet, Robyn teaches regularly at the dance school and travels widely as a guest tutor for local and international dance schools & workshops. She has been an examiner of the Royal Academy of Dance since 1985 examining throughout the world students from Pre-Primary to Advanced levels.

Robyn has worked with many students who have successfully obtained a career in dance. Most notable is local dancer Damian Smith from Toronto ex Principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet Company and our Patron. Many dance teachers in private dance or educational school through Australia have had.

Miss Eliza is the senior tap teacher at LMDA. She began dancing with Miss Robyn at age five and throughout her 15 years of dance training at RHSD studied classical ballet, jazz, contemporary and tap to advanced levels. She expanded her trainings in tap with Cherie Pullar, founder of Pullars Unique Tap syllabus (PDA). Miss Eliza is now a teacher and member of PDA tap syllabus and has had 100% success rate sending students for examination.

She has had many performance opportunities including the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, opening ceremony of the Pacific School Games, Hunter and State Dance Festivals, School’s Spectacular, Star Struck as group and featured artist, State Dance Ensemble and school musicals.

Miss Eliza is a qualified Primary School teacher with

Lake Macquarie Dance Academy/Petitestars

Lake Macquarie Dance Academy/Petitestars

ABOUT US

Teachers

Principal: Tiziana Bertaglia

Robyn Hick

Eliza Gillespie

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