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
STUDIO PROTOCOL
New studio rules in place to ensure compliance with Government restrictions due to COVID-19 and to allow a safe return to the studio
DANCERS:
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Dancers will need to bring their own hand sanitiser, yoga mat, hand towel for perspiration, labelled drink bottle, small easy to consume snack if needed (microwave will be unavailable) directly into the studio at the start of class.
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Dancers will enter the building no earlier than 5 mins before their scheduled class time, arriving fully dressed and ready to dance as the Green Room is closed until further notice.
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Dancers will go straight into the studio to a designated spot, maintaining social distancing rules at all times and in doorways where possible.
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Dancers will use hand sanitiser before, during and after each class.
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Dancers will exit via the double doors to the ‘Drop Zone’ to allow dancers in the next class to use the main entrance.
PARENTS:
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Parents will notify FORM immediately if their child is showing any symptoms of COVID-19 and keep sick students at home.
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Parents are to provide hygiene items required for dancers for all lessons.
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Parents will drop and collect students from the car park ‘Drop Zone’ and will not enter the studio.
FORM DANCE STUDIOS WILL:
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Ensure all areas are sanitised frequently and thoroughly, paying particular attention to ‘high-touch’ items such as door and tap handles, ballet barres etc, and will steam clean floors daily.
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Provide extra hand sanitiser, tissue boxes and pedal bins in corners of the studios and bathrooms.
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Instruct students to maintain appropriate social distancing using spot markers and signs, as well as structuring class activities and movement throughout the studio accordingly.
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Adhere to all Government health regulations in respect to the prevention of disease transmission guidelines.
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Use an infrared forehead thermometer as students enter classes to confirm absence of fever.
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Notify parents immediately of any health concerns that may impact students, whilst respecting appropriate confidentiality.
For further reading on returning to dance please refer to the following links:
https://www.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/my-business-covidsafe-plan.pdf
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/COVID-19_Workplace-Checklist.pdf