Fiona has been studying Dance for over 40 years and has enjoyed a professional dance and acting career that took her all over the world. Not only an accomplished dancer, Fiona also has an advanced diploma in Dramatic Art from the Actors Centre Australia (ACA), along with her Certificate in Ballet teaching studies with the Royal Academy of Dance.

Fiona has worked with children for many years, and through her experience and training understands needs required of children at different age levels and experience. whilst not only running the studio, Fiona still loves to teach and choreograph and her work has been seen at many events including the Sydney Opera House, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Dream world, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Homebush State Sports Centre, Andaman Resort Genting Thailand and the Art Gallery of NSW. Her students have won many eisteddfods and competitions under her guidance and have also gone on to professional careers.

Fiona has worked with many of Australia's top choreographers and some of her professional dance credits include: Grease the Arena Spectacular, Happy Days the Musical, Sydney Showboat, Reef Hotel Casino Cairns, Dame Edna Everage Show and Warner Bros Movie world. On screen she has been seen in All Saints, Comedy Inc and Numerous TV commercials.

Fiona is passionate about dance and nurturing the talent of young performers. Having just celebrated 20 years of POSE, she has been a positive influence in the lives of so many students, past and present and continues to strive for excellence in everything she does.

Brad is an important part of our team, teaching all of the performance students.

With over 25 years experience in the performing arts industry, Brad has performed, choreographed & coordinated for numerous productions both nationally & overseas. Studying in all facets of the performing arts, he has had many opportunities to perform & choreograph for and along side some of the worlds most elite industry professionals & companies.

As a freelance performer he has appeared in various film clips, TV commercials, TV appearances, films and on stages around he world.
As well as performing and creating Brad finds his passion in teaching and inspiring tomorrows generation of young performers. He has taught all around the world receiving much acclaim. We are excited for him to be joing the PPA team on a regular basis!

Sydney trained; Samantha gained all her RAD examinations including Solo Seal before moving to Melbourne to attend the Australian Ballet School.
After a professional career, dancing in Australia and The United Kingdom, Samantha returned home to embark on her teaching career.
Samantha began by attaining her Royal Academy of Dance teachers’ qualifications before running two successful performing arts and classical ballet schools in Sydney.
Many previous students have since gone on to professional dancing careers themselves in Australian, New Zealand, American and European companies and schools.
Since being appointed to the Royal Academy of Dance Examination Panel, Samantha enjoys freelance teaching in Australia and around the world. Samantha conducts examinations worldwide and is a guest teacher at international summer schools and holiday programs.

We look forward to Miss Samantha joining the team in 2025 and can't wait to see our students bloom under her guidance!

Born and raised in Sydney Australia, Chelsea Franklin is a multi faceted performer. Chelsea began her career modelling and acting in numerous advertising campaigns, Television series’s and Musical Theatre.

As a highly energised child, with a love for dance and performing; Chelsea won a starring role of Jennifer Wilson in the 12-part mini-series Five Times Dizzy, she has also appeared in Australia’s Most Wanted, The Midday Show, The Peoples Choice Awards, The Andrew Denton Show, The Disney Channel and a guest role as Lucy Pace on Home And Away for Seven Network.

An accomplished Dance and Musical Theatre performer, Chelsea has worked alongside top Australian and International choreographers and directors. Chelsea made her musical theatre debut at the age of 12 chosen from thousands of hopefuls to play the role of Young Cossette in the Australian Premiere of Les Miserablé. At 14 she played Nell in Seven Little Australians, purred as Sillabub in the Australasian Tour of CATS, played a very ‘Silly-Girl’ in the award winning musical Beauty And The Beast, toured Australian/NZ with Grease-The Arena Spectacular, and played the merry-murderess June in Chicago.

Classically trained in ballet with The Royal Academy of Dance RAD one of the largest and most influential dance education and training organisations in the world. Chelsea has also attained a Diploma in Performing Arts in all facets of dance whilst studying fulltime dancing under the direction of David Atkins, Marie Ploski and Tanya Pearson.

Chelsea’s passion has always been dance - in 2017 she became a qualified and registered teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance and has recently become a Silver Swans licensee. Chelsea is dedicated to teaching students of all ages and abilities, preparing students for their RAD examinations and to enjoy the art of dance.

Julia began dancing at young age with Rogersons Ballet Academy attending classes for RAD ballet, FATD Tap, modern and jazz. She successfully attained her Gold Star exam for Modern and also successfully passed with high grades her RAD ballet exams from Primary through to Advance 2. She competed in many eisteddfods for solos and troupes and began her teaching career there as a student teacher under the guidance of Barbara and Jennifer Rogerson.

In 1990, Julia attended McDonald College School for Performing Arts to further her career in ballet. During this year she was a semi-finalist for the Australian Ballet School. The following year she commenced full-time ballet training with Prudence Bowen at Ecole Classique. She continued to be successful at eisteddfods and other competitions for solos and troupes and achieved ARAD status by completing her Advance 2 exam. She was also a finalist in the prestige SODA Ballet Scholarship.

In 1993 Julia joined the Singapore Dance Theatre as an apprentice dancer. SDT is the premier national dance company in Singapore. The company performs 5 to 6 seasons per year. during this time, Julia went on tour with the Company to China and Australia. She was regularly a guest teacher at various ballet schools throughout Singapore and also participated in the Company’s Education and Outreach program.

In 1999, Julia began teaching at K and V Dancers (later became K & V Dance Corp) and completed her RAD Teachers certificate achieving Registered Teacher status. With Kim Rogerson, our students achieved very successful RAD ballet results from Pre-Primary through to Advance 2 with most students gaining Distinction. They were also very successful at various eisteddfods and competitions. In 2010 Julia became an important part of the PPA team as an RAD ballet teacher.

Julia continues to attend many dance related courses in particular those from the RAD to ensure her skills as a teacher are up to date with current and relevant techniques appropriate for todays dancer to succeed in their chosen career. She has a thorough knowledge of the new RAD syllabus from Pre-Primary in Dance to Advance 2.

Over the 25 years of teaching ballet, her students have been very successful in their RAD exams (from Pre-Primary to Advance 2) with most receiving Distinction. Many of these students have also been very successful at various eisteddfods and competitions, many of which have gone on to have their own dance careers around the world. She has also had students that have been accepted into the Australian Ballet School’s Interstate Program, the Australian Ballet School, Royal Ballet School, Joffery Ballet in New York, Houston Ballet School and Queensland Ballet School. Students have also received full scholarships to various international summer schools.

After graduating from QUT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Emma also received her RAD Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies, is a registered RAD teacher and a qualified RSD/RSB teacher. After teaching at many top training facilities in Qld, Emma made the move to Sydney to pursue a professional dance career.
She has recently finished filming "The Deb" which will hit movie theatres shortly along with working in Cabaret shows, and has worked alongside some of the top choreographers in Australia.
Emma joined the Pose team in 2024 teaching conditioning and technique and is excited to bring her knowledge of RAD and her love of ballet to our students in 2025. Emma loves to pass on her passion and love of dance to all students she teaches and we are happy and excited to have her on the team again this year!

Hayley trained at Pose Performing Arts from the age of 10, studying all styles including RAD Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, hip Hop and Musical Theatre, though her particular passion is Acro and conditioning. She is qualified Ready Set Dance and Ready Set Ballet teacher and completed all of her RAD ballet exams to Adv levels.
Hayley began teaching at Pose as a students teacher 6 years ago and has moved up to take her own classes and in 2025 heading the Pre-School program including Ready Set Dance, Ready Set Ballet and her own class of Tiny Tumblers! She works with the 6's and 8's Performance teams and also heads the Solo team creating solos for competitions. After school she studied full time dance at Village before leaving to attain her Bachelor of Teaching in Primary School students. We love having Hayley as part of the team!

Zoe trained at Pose Performing Arts from the age of 11, studying all styles including RAD Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop and Musical Theatre, and is a versatile teacher having mastered all styles. She is qualified Ready Set Dance and Ready Set Ballet teacher and completed all of her RAD ballet exams to Adv levels.
Zoe began teaching at Pose as a students teacher 6 years ago then moved up to take her own classes and in 2025 heading the Recreational Program whilst also working with Miss Hayley closely on all things RSD and RSB! Miss Zoe is an important part of the Pose team and loves sharing her passion for dance with all her Posers!

Holly is a determined and devoted dancer who loves sharing her passion for dance with everyone! Completing her Cert IV in dance and having her Gold certificate in Ready Set Dance just to name a few, she loves inspiring the new generation to love dance!

Growing up in the studio from age 4 at Goodew Dance, she wanted to push further in her training which she continued at Brent Street. She completed years 11 and 12 at Brent Street Academy and graduated in 2022! Being trained by some of the biggest names in the industry including Cassie Bartho, Paris Cavanagh, Matthew Gode, Alex Miedzinski, Jacob Yarr and Veronica Beattie, has motivated her to teach little dancers in the early years of their life!

Her talent has landed her in performances like the opening act for The Royal Family Australian Tour, Sydney, The One I'll Project ADF performance and show along with Dream Creative, Forge Tap project and more! Holly strives to help and nurture her students in hopes that she can get them to love dance as much as she does.

We look forward to having Holly as part of the team in 2025!

Maddie started at Pose Performing Arts at the age of 2 as has just celebrated her 16th year at the studio! It's safe to say Maddie has grown up at Pose and she has been a dedicated student and student teacher for many years, studying all styles of dance, including RAD Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Contemporary Acro and Musical Theatre.
Maddie starting as a student teacher 4 years ago and moved up to take her own classes last year while also completing her Diploma of Professional Dance at Ettinghaussen Pro. She is returning in 2025 to complete her Advance Diploma and will be teaching Jazz at Pose. Maddie has always been a treasured part of Pose and we love having her share her knowledge of the current styles in the industry.

As the daughter of the Principal of the school, it is safe to say Kenzie (as we call her) was born into Pose! However, it is her talent, dedication and love of dance that has seen her move seamlessly into teaching roles. As a dancer, Kenzie has won many solo national titles and is a valuable member of our Open Age Troupes. She began shadowing Miss Fiona in classes 3 years ago and absolutely adores children and passing on her love of dance. Kenzie is currently studying dance and drama in her final year of school and along with teaching dance, she also wants to studying her Bachelor of Primary School Teaching at University. Kenzie is also currently studying her cert 4 in business so you may also see her behind the scenes helping out in Admin and all things POSE! She is a trained RSD and Rsb teacher and loves working with our lil posers on Saturdays and whenever else she is needed!

Kyla has trained at Pose since the age of 2 and recently celebrated 15 years of Loyalty to our Studio. She is also currently the Senior Student of the Year and has studied and excelled in all styles of dance including RAD ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre and Acro. She is currently completing Yr 12 at Newtown High School of Performing Arts and started student teaching last year. She absolutely adores the children and passing on her passion for dance and demonstrates beautiful lines and technique in her classes. We adore having Kyla on the teaching team and look forward to seeing where dance will take her in the not too distant future!

Indy has also grown up at Pose, having started her training here as a little 2 yr old! Indy has trained in all styles on dance, RAD Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre and Acro and completed her Bronze trying in RSD in 2023. She has been assisting Zoe with our littlest Posers for two years now and loves to share her passion and enthusiasm for dance with our RSD students. We adore having her pass on all that she has learnt at Pose top her students!

Brock Cramond is a fervent, multi-faceted creative having worked as an actor, singer/musician, and composer. Growing up in Sydney, Brock established a positive and driven work ethic, discovering an interest in all facets of theatre, both performative and technical. He found his passion for performance and theatre-making in the amateur musical theatre scene of Southern Sydney, performing in shows with local communities. He is also the son of a dance studio owner - perfect to understand the needs of young dancers!
Brock recently graduated with a diploma of Dramatic Art from the Actors Centre Australia and during his time there, Brock was a part of various productions and showcases but most importantly has fostered an eager eye for detail, design, and artistry. One such facet has been creative writing, having written his own poetry which he hopes to publish, and the beginnings of a fresh screenplay that he intends to finish in the coming year. Brock has also had the opportunity to hone his craft for music, having played piano, synth, and accordion in various productions at ACA, and even composing music.

Brock is excited to be a guest teacher this year at Pose, working with our Musical Theatre students to broaden their training from Dance, to Dram and Singing, making them real triple threat performers!

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