S.H.A.K.E. Dance School started in 1998 in New Farm with 2 jazz classes and 9 students. It began as a part-time bit of fun for the principal and quickly expanded into a great big fun school filled with enthusiastic and talented students. We now do 7 different genres of dance, eisteddfods and over 200 exams each year. S.H.A.K.E dancers regularly perform at school fetes and community events and we have two major concerts at the end of each year.

Our students have gone on to further their education with the Queensland Ballet, QUT Fine Arts, ED5, Brent Street, WAPA and there are ex-students performing in shows all over the world. We are the first and only Queensland studio to have 2 students pass the highest level of ballet (Premier Danseur) with Comdance.

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Principal (Comdance Diploma Modern Jazz & Classical)

Nikki began ballet training with Shirley McMahon at age 7 and then Jazz and Tap at age 13 with Sandra Breen, later moving to Qld Ballet School with Mary Heath. She worked professionally in various theatre and club shows from the age of 15 and then switched to a 9 to 5 office job after realizing she was 7 inches too short for Moulin Rouge! After working for a number of years part-time dance teaching & performing at random events , she began S.H.A.K.E. in 1998 and her dream of wearing lycra and legwarmers and enjoying every day of her life has been fulfilled.

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Nikki McIntyre