March 5th, 2010
The Diamond Princess took a once-only, one-day stop over in Sydney Harbour on the weekend so it was a great opportunity for Miss Jo, Damian & family to see Miss Laura in action aboard the A-class cruise ship.
Miss Laura spent the day showing Miss Jo around the ship, backstage tour & a wonderful time to catch up.
So proud of Miss Laura : living her dreams performing as one of the star dancers on board in the beautiful 750 seat theatre that is housed within the ship. Laura joins fellow past LA student Lauren S on board the very same ship, & it was a lovely coincidence to run into another past student Luke on his way to teach at Sydney Dance Co on the same day!
The amazing Miss Laura on deck docked in the harbour
Fun times with Laura
Laura in the beautiful 750 seat theatre that is housed within the ship during a quiet time!
The Diamond Princess
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March 5th, 2010
Thank you to Michael Schwandt for coming to Lee Academy to host his workshop in Advanced Jazz Funk with Lee Academy students & “friends of Lee Academy” last night.
As with most international guests we hosted the advanced level of workshop & it was great to see so many there making the most of our state-of-the-art studios.
Thank you to the wonderful Chris Duncan for her excellent management of the event.
Michael after the workshop with some of the students - what a great time!
Miss Jo with Michael Schwandt
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March 5th, 2010
Lee Academy has the pleasure of hosting the lovely Warnervale Primary School children for school sporting activities this term. The students get to learn cheerleading, gymnastics AND hip-hop at the beautiful Tuggerah studios!
The students are all so good & the teachers are great too: welcome to Lee Academy Warnervale Primary School & glad you are all having so much fun!
Warnervale Primary kids doing school sport with Lee Academy
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March 5th, 2010
A huge congratulations to Master Zachary S: who made his professional debut at The Sydney Opera House as a dancer & gymnast in Baz Luhrmann’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Opera Australia. Miss Jo, Mum Kym, Auntie Lynda & his Grandma & Grandad were all there on opening night to cheer Zac on.
So proud of you Zac & overjoyed to see you doing what you were born to do!
Zac has had many gruelling hours of rehearsal in Sydney, started Yr 7 at Wyong High & comes to every single one of the 20 classes he takes a week at Lee Academy whenever he is not in Sydney doing the shows = always with a positive attitude & his typical hard-working approach in class. Well done to mini-man & his wonderful family who are so very supportive of Zac, especially his 2 little sisters Ellie & Zali & Master Jayden who are all very happy for Zac & very talented performers too!
LA's Zac on stage at The Opera House Photo:Judith Fay Photography
Mum, Zac & Miss Jo on the steps of The Opera House before opening night show.
Zac showing off outside!
Proud Mum, Auntie, Grandma & Grandad with Zac after his first show
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March 5th, 2010
We would like to welcome the newest addition to the Lee Academy family = the adorable baby Jake who is a new baby brother for the fabulous Tahlia McG: a wonderful young dancer in the 12s teams 
– Tahlia is once again a very proud big sister!
Miss B holding lovely new baby Jake
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March 5th, 2010
Lee Academy has well & truly launched into 2010! Miss Alyssa’s senior advanced contemporary class is one of the awesome senior advanced classes @ LA this year – here they are having fun at the end of the lesson.
Miss A’s chorey is amazing this year.
Senior Adv. Contemporary with Miss Alyssa 2010
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January 17th, 2010
A huge congrats to Lee Academy Senior Duo score of 97.1 for Emma & Danni’s senior jazz at nationals well done girls on your 2nd place & congrats to the USA girls from West Coast on your 1st. The scores were very close:
97.1 & 97.6.
the 1st & 2nd place winners of the Senior Jazz Duos at the National Dance Championships this week. Left to right: Clarice: Emma: Alexandria & Danni well done girls! great competition.
Emma getting ready for DOTY finals
Our pre-teen Dancer of the Year: Emma Mac: outside Jupiters yesterday.
Emma Mac: outside Jupiters yesterday.
Prizes
more prizes
Miss Jo with the beautiful Danni Hegarty our Senior Dancer of the Year
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January 17th, 2010
The Lee Academy crew had a great time performing at the rodeo last week at Wyong Rugby League Club in front of thousands of people.
It was great to be there performing again. Well done to our special junior guest dancers = Cassie & Taylor who did a great job tumbling across the performance space! Our pro girls Danni, Emma & Brooke were fantastic as usual.
Great job guys.
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December 15th, 2009
A huge congratulations to the Lee Academy Team on the most successful & inspiring concerts ever. Thank you so much to everyone for your lovely messages, cards & emails telling us how much you enjoyed the shows. Civic Theatre Newcastle is an excellent venue & everyone enjoyed the fantastic seating & space.
Here a few special images from just a couple of the magical moments we had on stage.
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December 15th, 2009
Congratulations to Lee Academy dancers
This year we once again recorded some outstanding results for our soloists & duos.
At The Dance Attack Challenge recently, to mention just a couple of the places our dancers won:
Cassie : 1st place intermediate JAZZ championship & Ducky : 3rd place intermediate JAZZ championship
Emma Mac : 1st place intermediate CONTEMPORARY championship
JJ : 3rd place intermediate CONTEMPORARY championship
& Danni & Emma 1st place senior JAZZ duos/trios.
congratulations all our winners!
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