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Holly is the Artistic Director of Dance Northside, a dance teacher, contemporary dance performer, choreographer and movement improviser.
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Holly passionately believes in the transformative power of dance and that it should be available for all as a positive experience.
She lives this belief through Dance Northside’s philosophy ‘For People Who Simply... love to dance’
and through working with youth-at-risk programs.
Holly also teaches and choreographs within the ACT Education System at a primary, college and tertiary level and,
in 2009, was selected to choreograph the senior contemporary dance work for the ACT public schools ‘Limelight’ production.
She choreographed Lyneham Primary’s 2010 Wakakirri performance with 120 children, which went on to be awarded second place at the ACT Grand Final.
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Holly is a professional dancer and graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts-Dance in 2005.
During her time at university she worked with the ‘Physical TV Company’
and was selected to appear on their multi-award winning film ‘Thursdays Fictions’.
In addition to various university performances, she choreographed ‘Landfire’,
a contemporary dance work made in response to the Canberra bushfires of 2003, and solo work ‘A Way Out…’.
‘Landfire’ was selected to be performed at her graduation show.
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In 2006, Holly collaborated with SA-based artist Kate Scully to create ‘Reality Dreaming’ for the South Australian Festival of the Arts.
She has performed in Sydney and interstate with choreographers such as Elizabeth Cameron Dalmon, Graeme Watson, Michael Whaites,
Barnadette Walong, Robyn Prichard, Darren Green and many more.
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In 2007, Holly returned to Canberra and opened Dance Northside.
Since then she has performed the full-length contemporary dance works ‘Shambles’ and ‘Restless’ with Cadi McCarthy and Company,
appeared in ‘Tango Lament’ and ‘River’ with Mirramu Dance Company and in ‘Enduring Intimacy’ with Meg Millband.
Holly was nominated for an Australian Dance Award as the ‘Most Outstanding Female Performer’ for her work in ‘River’.
Most recently Holly created and performed the solo work ‘Glimpse’
and performed in the improvised duo ‘Moment(um)’ in collaboration with Keira Mason Hill for Canberra’s 2010 ‘Short and Sweet’ Dance Festival.
Holly and Keira were awarded the ‘People Choice Award’ for ‘Moment(um)’.
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Holly is an active member of the Canberra Contact Improvisation Community and also regularly travels to Sydney for jams and workshops.
She was invited to be a tutor at the Australian Contact Improvisation Convergence in 2010.
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Holly’s main focus as a dance teacher is to provide each and every student with a positive and confidence-building experience
in class and performance, ensuring the movement and music used is appropriate to the age of the student,
and with the inherent understanding that every child learns differently.
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Rebecca will be on maternity leave for terms 1 and 2 of 2012. We look forward to welcoming her back in term 3!
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Rebecca is an accomplished dancer and dance teacher.
She has been dancing since she was two-and-a-half years old, and in this time has studied, ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical and tap.
Rebecca has been teaching at Dance Northside since 2007 and has established a firm presence in the Dance Northside
community, introducing a new dance class ‘Bopping with Bec’ in 2010.
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In addition to her extensive dance experience, Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Educational Studies and is currently studying
a Graduate Certificate in Inclusive Education in Autism.
She is very enthusiastic about, and achieves great success with the gross motor and social development of Dance Northside’s youngest dancers.
Her passion for the youngest of students and the understanding that the earliest movement experiences create
strong links to succuss in formal education are the foundation of her dance teaching philosophy.
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As well as teaching at Dance Northside, Rebecca teaches within the ACT Educational System and other community dance groups.
She is a member of the Australian Government Active After-School Community Coaches and holds a Community Coaches certificate
issued by AusSport ACT.
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Adelaide born and bred, Jo (Joanne) started dancing at age 3 with Song and Dance, Jazz, Tap and classical ballet lessons and CSTD Examinations.
She later became a Teacher through the CSTD system and has been teaching for 15 years.
After attending a high school with a focus on the Performing Arts and in particular Dance,
she developed a love of Modern dance history and Contemporary dance, discovering a natural,
uninhibited ability to compose movement and choreograph.
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After being accepted into the Bachelor of Arts in Dance at Adelaide University, Jo decided to turn down the offer and focus on developing a teaching career,
studying Early Childhood Education at The University of South Australia.
Throughout her studies, Joanne continued to teach and perform both in Adelaide and overseas with tours to Singapore in cabaret shows in 2003 and 2004.
Choreographing and performing at corporate functions (including a stint as a back-up dancer for Marcia Hines),
hosting children’s entertainment shows at Westfield shopping centres and auditioning for many TV commercials kept her passion for performing alive,
while taking workshops and classes with companies like ADT and Leigh Warren and Dancers kept her current in the contemporary dance scene.
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Jo began teaching Dance and Drama at Christes Beach High School in 2004 and went on to win a permanent position teaching Dance from year 8-12 at Henley High School in 2006.
After establishing a specialist dance program at the school, Jo found herself in Florida, USA, on a 3 year posting with her RAAF Husband.
At NWF state College Joanne studied Modern Dance and found some work relief teaching at the NWF Ballet School and also at the college.
After 2 Babies and some wonderful adventures in the United States, Joanne has found herself starting anew in Canberra
and is looking forward to getting out into the dance community and doing classes whenever she can.
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Adelina Larsson is an independent dance artist currently based in Canberra.
Her artistic practice and performance includes contemporary dance techniques, physical theater, improvisation, real time choreography and dance on screen.
Since arriving in Australia 2007 she has collaborated and performed with artists in various art forms across Australia and overseas such as physical theater company Corazon de Vaca (WA),
choreographer Sarah Neville (WA), Madeleine Karlsson (SWE), Erik Kaiel (NL), Sidney Leoni (SWE), Michelle Outram (WA), Sassan Sahar (NL), Meg Millband (ACT),
multi disciplinary artist David Corbet (ACT), visual artist Elena Näsänen (FIN), Corbie Orger (VIC) amongst others.
She has performed at National Gallery of Australia, Deckchair Theater, Palladium, Schouwburg theaters in Holland, Theater Kikker.
In 2008 Adelina received with her collaborator David Corbet, the artsACT grant for Its impossible….
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In 2009 she was appointed Festival Director of Short Sweet+Dance Festival Canberra, which will have its inauguration at the Courtyard studio of Canberra Theater this year.
She is also the instigator of idact Independent dance platform.
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