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 is the official location of
READY SET DANCE (RSD) in Frenchs Forest!
READY SET DANCE
is a one hour combo class of
JAZZ, TAP, HIP HOP, SINGING and MUSIC and a whole lot of fun!
The program caters for two levels, 2-3 years and 4-5 years and is endorsed by early learning experts.
JAZZ – Develop muscle strength, control and balance and achieve coordination milestones like skipping before going to school.
HIP HOP – Bust out some ice cold moves just like Freeze to our original hip hop tracks.
MUSIC – Develop the musical ear, dynamics and tempo while having fun with instruments and the parachute.
SINGING – Sing like Twirl and build confidence singing on the microphone
TAP – Learn the fundamentals of tap in a playful and creative way splashing in puddles and shuffling like a penguin.
All these ingredients together create a super hour of fun!
The classes are designed to give boys and girls the 3 C’s -
confidence, coordination and creativity.
Please go to our uniform store for the all RSD uniform items!
RSD students have the opportunity to perform in our end of year showcase!
We strive to make READY SET DANCE your tiny dancers favourite day of the week!
2021 CLASSES:
TUESDAYS: 9:30-10:30am
SATURDAYS: 9:30-10:30am
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY:
The children respond with active and joyful engagement and participation that enables them to practice and refine the skills and capacities needed for dance. At the same time the children are extended across the various developmental domains of physical, cognitive, language and social development and use learning processes such as attending, remembering and problem solving. Through regular and sustained participation in Ready Set Dance classes children develop positive dispositions to learning such as enthusiasm, independence, concentration, persistence, co-operation and the three C’s of confidence, coordination, and creativity.
Dr Cathie Harrison
Early learning and gifted education consultant
*Try a class for free with no obligation to enrol. Trial class is counted in term fees if/when you enrol at FORM