Grace Petersen
Grace Petersen
Emma
Wong
Grace found her love for tapping at the age of 8 and worked hard at the genre to achieve her Tap Gold Star for CSTD in 2015. Grace discovered she also enjoyed the acting and musical theatre aspects of performing arts in 2012 when she started private and groups lessons under the guidance of Rebecca Hutchins, achieving her ATCL Teaching and Performing Diplomas of Musical Theatre. She went on to perform in numerous plays and musicals at the local Bundaberg Playhouse Theatre in Queensland. Her credits include, but are not limited to, Evita the Musical (The Mistress), Wicked (Nessarose) and The Drowsy Chaperone (Janet Van De Graff). During her time at the theatre she was also the Youth Theatre Director for a year and choreographed Pirates of Penzance Jr and High School Musical the Stage Production.
Grace took her training a step further in 2019, moving states to train with the likes of William A Forsythe, Leslie Bell, Neale Whittaker, Danielle and Scott Irwin, Nigel Turner and Phillip Filo at Ed5International where she graduated in 2020 with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts. Grace continues to train herself whilst sharing her passion for the arts with her students.
Grace found her love for tapping at the age of 8 and worked hard at the genre to achieve her Tap Gold Star for CSTD in 2015. Grace discovered she also enjoyed the acting and musical theatre aspects of performing arts in 2012 when she started private and groups lessons under the guidance of Rebecca Hutchins, achieving her ATCL Teaching and Performing Diplomas of Musical Theatre. She went on to perform in numerous plays and musicals at the local Bundaberg Playhouse Theatre in Queensland. Her credits include, but are not limited to, Evita the Musical (The Mistress), Wicked (Nessarose) and The Drowsy Chaperone (Janet Van De Graff). During her time at the theatre she was also the Youth Theatre Director for a year and choreographed Pirates of Penzance Jr and High School Musical the Stage Production.
Grace took her training a step further in 2019, moving states to train with the likes of William A Forsythe, Leslie Bell, Neale Whittaker, Danielle and Scott Irwin, Nigel Turner and Phillip Filo at Ed5International where she graduated in 2020 with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts. Grace continues to train herself whilst sharing her passion for the arts with her students.
Emma Wong is a professional commercial dancer and teacher based in Sydney with skills spanning across jazz, contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, musical theatre, ballet and technical training. She is from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland and grew up training from the age of 3 at her home studio now known as, Dance 3D.
Post graduation of high school she moved to Brisbane where she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Education (Graduate of 2015) at the Queensland University of Technology. This is where she truely fell in love with the world of teaching in dance. Following this she pursued pushing her personal training even further and moved to the Gold Coast for full time at Dance Force to complete a Cert IV in Dance Performance. Almost immediately after graduation she was offered representation by Jeep Management and moved to Sydney early 2017.
Since then she has worked for Eurovision, Eurovision Asia, The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, The Masked Singer, Ricki Lee, Dami Im, Guy Sebastian, Delta Goodrem, Todd Mckenney, Sloan Peterson, has worked with some of Australia's top choreographers and appeared in various TV commercials and shows. Emma was also part of The Dream Dance Company SHOW | BUSINESS 2018 cast, working closely with Marko Panzic and Katie Sanchez. She is currently also a company member of One Dance Collective and works closely with Lucy Doherty and Rob McLean on a regular basis to bring intention, connection and community to the Australian dance industry.
Emma is now beginning to put more focus into creating and choreographing on top of her usual teaching and performing. She is passionate about personal development and growth both in and outside of dance and can't wait to continue sharing, progressing and inspiring with the future generations.
5 Grattan Cres, Frenchs Forest 2086
FORM PERFORMANCE TEAM
These classes are for the committed dancer wanting to be a part of competitions both in a team and individually. To be in our Performance Teams, dancers are required to attend an in-class audition.
Being a part of our Performance Team allows students the opportunity to be a part of a super supportive group of dancers and perform on a regularly basis at both competitions and events.
Our Performance Team learn new routines across all styles in July of each year ready for our end of year showcase. These routines then compete in competitions during the following year.
Dancers compete based on their age at January 1st each year.
Performance Team dancers are required to do a minimum of 2 x RAD ballet class and 1 x technique class a week. This is simply to ensure the standard of technique is of a high level and is maintained by all.
If you are interested in joining please register your interest by emailing us your dancers name and date of birth so we can arrange an in-class audition for them.
Please note: Dancers cannot be added to the team after new routines have begun in Term 3.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions regarding FORM or our auditions.
Send all enquiries to: info@formdancestudios.com.au
