Kealy Fouracre
TPDA Owner- Ballet, Contemporary, Pilates, PBT
Kealy grew up in Oak Park, Victoria. She started dancing at the age of 3 at Clifton Dance Studio until the age of 12 when she received a 6 year scholarship to the Victorian College of Arts Secondary School (VCASS). She then attend Tanya Pearsons Classical Coaching Academy in Sydney for more formal training.
Kealy then embarked on a journey to Hungary to study with the Hungarian School of Dance for six months before returning to Australia to complete her Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
After graduating, Kealy was immediately offered a contract as a Junior Artist with Melbourne City Ballet in 2014. She was then promoted to Company Artist in 2015 and has featured in many soloist roles. Her most significant roles to date have been Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Blue Bird Pas de Deux in Sleeping Beauty.
In 2019, Kealy moved on to join Masters of Choreography as well as taking on the role of Director at Turning Pointe Dance Academy - Melbourne.
Kealy has performed with Masters of Choreography in shows such as Beats on Pointe, Music Box, Raise The Barre, Wanderlust and Ringmaster, performing across Australia and internationally, including Londons West End.
2022 sees Kealy continuing to work with Masters of Choreography here in Australia and internationally.
Tanya Singh
RAD Ballet
Tanya Singh has a passion for teaching and developing the love of dance. With 25 years of teaching and putting students through RAD exams Miss Tanya as a registered Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) teacher also mentors for the RAD Classical Ballet Teachers Program (CBTS) where she mentors teachers on the Royal Academy’s Teachers Program helping with teaching skills, execution of work and preparing for their final practical teaching exam to gain their registration. Miss Tanya has taught and put through students from Pre Primary the very first exam through to Solo Seal the final exam of RAD.
Miss Tanya believes that exams are a wonderful way of developing students in all areas of life from ballet technique to learning how to prepare and build all skills that will help not just in dance but in outside studio life.
After studying full-time Classical Ballet at the prestigious Marie Walton Dance Academy in Newcastle, Tanya successfully gained a scholarship at The London Studio Centre (England) where fell in love with performing arts and musical theatre learning the art of contemporary along with hip-hop, tap, drama and vocals, making her not only a diverse performer but also a diverse teacher. Upon returning to Australia Miss Tanya moved to country Victoria to start her teaching career owning and operating her very own studio for 14year having a family and then eventually moving to Melbourne to freelance teach. Miss Tanya also Adjudicates comps and has been lucky enough to Adjudicate at some big competitions such as ComDance formerly known as the CSTD Festival, Phoenix Dance Festival and Victorian Performing Arts Challenge among others.
Tanya has had the pleasure of sharing many success stories of students developing and for fulfilling their dreams of studying full-time dance and/or working in the industry with some of Australia’s biggest dance companies.
Jemima Eva
Jazz/Tap
Jemima is a multi-skilled performer and has been performing since the very young age of 4, starting off dancing and moving onto musical theatre, children’s entertainment and puppetry.
In 2015 Jemima acquired her Diploma in Musical Theatre at APO Arts Academy Melbourne, while simultaneously completing her Cert IV in Dance at Dance World Studios.
Since then Jemima has had the chance to work with many amazing performers and directors.
In 2015/2016 Jemima toured around mainland China as a dancer with China International Tours for their Broadway Gala Tour.
2016 also saw Jemima's career as a children's entertainer take off, touring with Meerkat Productions delivering Theatre in Education shows to primary and high schools in city and rural Australia.
Since then Jemima has completed 4 more contract's with Meerkat Productions, and is now excited to be a part of set/props and puppet construction for the company's 2022 bookweek tours in Vic, NSW and QLD.
Between touring contracts, Jemima is lucky enough to work with other companies dedicated to nurturing and educating children through different art forms. Running school holiday programs, teaching dance and drama for various companies including Tiny Tutus, collaborating with artists at Melbourne Zoo (devising characters for their campaigns), roving puppets at large events with The Puppetsmithery and delivering workshops at schools and festivals across Australia with Trash Puppets.
Jemima is excited to return to teaching to share the wealth of knowledge she has gained throughout her professional career.
Sasha Concollato
Ready Set Dance, Ballet, PBT & Contemporary
Sasha began her journey in dance at the age of 5 in Melbourne at Clifton Dance Studio. In the 9 years she trained there, under the guidance of Alida Endrigo, she completed her RAD examinations always receiving a high distinction as well as recognition in both Audrey Nicholls and Kathleen Gorham awards.
Sasha then began full-time training at Melbourne City Ballet in their MICA program where she was selected to represent them at Alana Haines Awards in New Zealand 2017 as well as being a grand finalist in the Ballet Teachers Workshop 2018.
During this time she was also a member of Melbourne City Youth Ballet for six seasons where she performed lead roles such as Swanhilda in Coppelia, Bluebird Pas de Deux in Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Myrtha in Giselle.
Sasha was then offered a place with Queensland Ballet Academy in 2019 where she relocated to Brisbane to continue her training. Since then Sasha performed as Snow Queen in The Nutcracker with State Youth Ballet Company as well as being a member of SCIMM’s youth platform company.
Alaska
Kingston-Lee
Pre-Primary/ Grade 1 Ballet
Beginning at the age of 2, Alaska has grown up in the performing arts, extensively training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, irish dancing, musical theatre and tap. Alaska found a love of teaching while assisting in classes at a local studio and began teaching independent classes from the age of 16. Alaska strives to create a positive environment in which children actively learn technique and can explore their creativity through dance. She has experience teaching RAD ballet syllabus, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and private lessons.
While training in Canberra, Alaska completed her Royal Academy of Dance examinations up to Grade 8 and Advanced Foundation with only distinctions. After successfully auditioning for her high school performing arts program, Alaska had the privilege of participating in local theatre productions and regional showcases, such as Grease and Camp Rock. Alaska completed her HSC in Dance and Drama, receiving prestigious nominations for 'Onstage' and 'Call Back', showcases of the highest scoring students in the state.
Alaska is currently training at Transit Dance and studying to gain her Diploma in Dance Elite Performance (Performing Arts), where she completes full time training and quarterly performances. She is also currently completing her Certificate IV in Dance Teaching and Management through Transit Dance.
Ruby Ayliffe
Pre-Primary/ Ready Set Dance Assistant
Ruby started dancing at Clifton Dance Studio in 2011 at age six and continues to be a student here at Turning Point Dance Academy. She has undertaken RAD Ballet grades exams up until Grade 8 and vocational exams up until Advanced 2.
Alongside ballet Ruby also trains in jazz, tap and contemporary and has participated in the end of year showcases and troupe competitions.
In 2019 Ruby taught the pre-primary class for a year alongside fellow classmate Madeline. In 2021 she began assistant teaching for Kealy Fouracre in Primary Ballet and Ready Set Dance.
As well as dancing Ruby is in her second year studying a bachelor’s degree in Science at The University of Melbourne