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.
Audra Tory
Ballet, Pilates & Contemporary
Audra fell in love with dance at a young age. Having trained in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz and Musical Theatre she graduated from The McDonald College, Sydney Australia before moving to New York City where she further trained with Akjun Ballet Theatre. From there she performed professionally with Atlantic City Ballet in New Jersey before returning to Australia.
Since returning home she has performed with Sydney Ballet Theatre, “Le Ballet Rock” and “That 70s Dance Explossion”. She then moved in 2015 to Victoria to work with Melbourne City Ballet, where she worked until July 2019, concluding her time with the company as a Solo Artist. She has since performed with Masters of Choreography in their production entitled Music Box as well as various projects.
Audra also has a passion for choreography that has seen her choreograph; Ballet, contemporary and various dance works on both professionals and students, along side her performance career. Some of her choreographic highlights include her piece entitled 'Inertia' on Melbourne City Ballet dancers in 2017 as well as her work 'Abyss' performed by Sydney Choreographic Centre in 2022.
In 2022 Audra enjoyed the wonderful opportunity of completing a mentorship under Francesco Ventriglia at the Sydney Choreographic Centre.
Audra has 20+ years of teaching experience; that varies from young students to professionals, expanding down the east coast of Australia and the U.S.A. She is a passionate and versatile teacher sharing her knowledge in a wide range of dance disciplines, acting and production. In 2023 Audra also completed her Pilates Instructor Qualifications.the difference.
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.
Ruby Ayliffe
Primary School Ballet & PBT
Ruby and her love for dancing began at age six when she first started dancing at Clifton Dance Studio in 2011. She has continued to enjoy and love dance by continuing to dance and work here at Turning Point Dance Academy as both a student and a teacher. She has undertaken RAD Ballet grades exams up until Grade 8 and vocational exams up until Advanced 2. She is currently training to take the Solo Seal examination.
Alongside ballet Ruby has also trained in jazz, tap and contemporary and has participated in the end of year showcases and troupe competitions including highlights of ‘Queen of Hearts’ in Alice in Wonderland 2022, ‘Cinderella’ in Cinderella 2022 and ‘Tinkerbell’ in Peter Pan 2024.
In 2023 Ruby performed as a member of Melbourne Youth Ballet Company for two seasons dancing lead roles as the ‘Rooster’ in La Fille Mal Gardee and the ‘Snow Queen’ in The Nutcracker.
Ruby began teaching at TPDA in 2019 teaching pre-primary ballet class for a year. At the end of 2021 she began assistant teaching for Kealy Fouracre in Primary Foundation Ballet classes and Ready Set Dance. Since Ruby has continued to teach Ready Set Dance, Primary and Kinder levels of ballet.
Marlia Chofor
Marlia is an all rounded dancer, singer and actress. Marlia began training at the age of 4. Since then she has trained across numerous styles including Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Musical theatre, Contemporary, Lyrical, Hiphop, Commercial, Strength & Technique. Marlia continues to train in dance, vocal and is currently studying to complete a Cert III in dance.
Marlia has been selected to be apart of various dance companies including SCIMM’s Platforms youth company, Dance Prescription, LOCREADO by Loredo Malcom, Tannos Collective, The Legacy & Co, Stella youth dance company and the Performing Artists Company’s shows 'Newsies Jnr' and 'A Chorus Line Jnr' as a featured dancer.
Marlia was an ambassador at 'RISE Performance experience' where she had the opportunity to be a dance captain/team leader travelling interstate with the program.
Marlias professional stage debut was in 2019 at the Malthouse theatre in 'Solaris' where she played the role of Lily. Marlia continues to act in short films, tvcs and modelling. She aspires to play a role in a touring musical in the coming years.