Some of our wonderful students, parents & teachers were involved in modeling for the upcoming advertising campaign for Lake Haven shopping center.
Here you can see Emma modeling, it was a really fun day.
Keep a look out around Lake Haven for Emma’s familiar face plus more on the posters around the center!
We are very proud to announce that Lee Academy solos & duos did exceptionally well at Showcase solo & duo competition this year.
This year we have 4 DANCER OF THE YEAR FINALISTS!
Huge congratulations to Danni Hegarty, Jacqui Birch, Emma Macpherson & Cassie Clarke, who are our new DOTY finalists!
Massive congratulations to Danni H, who placed top 7 highest scoring acts of the entire competition.
Petite high score act top 5: Shaylee Elliot
Pre-teen high score acts top 10: Emma Mac:4th. Michaela M:7th & Cassie:10th
Senior high score acts top 6: Danni H:2nd & Jacqui:7th
1st places went to:
Emma & Cassie:contemporary duo
Danni & Emma: jazz duo
Danni & Emma: contemporary duo
Zac & Jess: jazz duo
Danni H: Acro solo
Danni H: student choreography solo
Jess W: acro solo
2nd places went to:
Emma Mac: jazz
Emma Mac: lyrical
Emma Mac: contemporary
Danni H: contemporary (98.2)
Jacqui B: lyrical
Shaylee: Hip-hop
3rd places went to:
Michaela M: contemporary
Jacqui B:jazz
Danni H: lyrical
Emily S: broadway jazz
Jess w: classical
Shaylee: jazz
plus plenty of top 5′s & almost all scores over 90. Everyone qualified for nationals.:)
The beautiful & talented Shannon O’Shea, currently on the cast of FAME! The musical was with us yesterday to teach our Fulltime, Fulltime masterclass, 14’s advanced & Senior Advanced classes in Jazz, Lyrical & Musical Theatre.
It was an absolutely wonderful day & all the students had such a great time.
Thank you so much to Shannon for excellent classes & we can’t wait for her return!
FAME! The musical’s Shannon O”Shea with the masterclass girls.
FAME! The musical’s Shannon O”Shea with the 14’s advanced students.
City of Sydney Eisteddfod is the largest & most prestigious event of it’s kind in the Southern hemisphere & Lee Academy prides itself on being in attendance there to compete and perform each year.
The 14′s contemporary had phenomenal success placing 2nd in thier section on the weekend.
The routine was “polkamatic” choreographed by Director Jo Cotterill.
Congratulations to everyone!
Go Lee Academy
Miss Alyssa & Miss Jo with the 14's at City of Sydney after winning 2nd place
All the LA kids have been training hard since returning to class for term 3 – a huge term for us with Showcase state championships on the 15th, Dance Attack Challenge troupes on the 18th & 19th September, solos/duos from the 25th – 30th September & culminating in a series of shows at Westfield Shoppingtown in the 2nd week of the school holidays.
“Across the floor” is one of the juniors favourite things to do, here’s a few pics:
Bek's side jete
Jessie's back summy
cool pose: Em & Zoe
Jess W's aerial cartwheel
Jessie's elbow balance
Zac's walkover summy
Courtneys grande jete
Yesterday was a beautiful day for our Lee Academy cheerleading juniors & performance cheer to dance.
A great afternoon with all lifts & tricks working perfectly as usual & some very supportive audience members.
Well done guys!
LA Cheer performing yesterday
Congratulations to all who performed in competitions from Newcastle to Sydney in the holidays.
We recorded outstanding results across the board & our list of achievements at all eisteddfods was outstanding.
Lee Academy was awarded the Coastquest:
Most Professional Dance Studio
Most Professional Dance Troupe
Most Promising Senior Dancer – Danni Hegarty
We won the 1st, 2nd & 3rd in the Senior Contemporary group section
We also won the 1st & 2nd in the 12/u Jazz group section
these are the only 2 group sections we entered this time.
There were loads of excellent solo & duo results as well. We are still hearing from students so will post up a full list when we have collected all the results!
So far the count stands at 30 – 1st places, 15 – 2nd places and 9 – 3rd places,, Go LA!
Check out our Face Book eisteddfod results thread, if you have not been listed post your results and we will update it.
At City of Sydney Eisteddfod: the most prestigious & largest performing arts challenge in the Southern hemisphere, we have showcased our group & solo performers with excellent results.
HC: Open age lyrical troupes - (approx. 24 troupes)
2nd: Danni Hegarty open lyrical solo – (approx. 50 in the section)
HC: Danni Hegarty contemporary solo – (approx. 48 in the section)
Finalist: Cassie Clarke contemporary solo – (approx. 50 in the section)
HC: Zac Smith lyrical solo – (approx. 39 in the section)
Jess & Zac: 1st place duo at Lake Macquarie Dance Festival
Jess W: 1st place classical solo at Coastquest championships
LA seniors back stage at the Opera House for the open contemporary groups.
Some of our LA juniors feeling very happy after winning every section they competed in.
Lee Academy at Coastquest
The lovely Katrina E celebrated her 14th birthday at Lee Academy on the weekend with us by choosing to have her birthday party at Lee Academy.
It was a really wonderful party with all her dancing & school friends coming along to share the fun with Miss Emma, Miss Laura & Miss Rachel to enjoy the day with Katrina & friends.
Happy Birthday Katrina!
Katrina: Happy Birthday!
Birthday girl Katrina enjoying the bungee harness at her Lee Academy birthday party!
Head teacher of Acrobatics & Gymnastics, Dianne Banks, enjoyed a wonderful 2 days with many other Lee Academy teachers upgrading the acrobatics syllabus to the “Acrodancer” training system.
Lee Academy will be one of the first schools in Australia to take on the brand new syllabus that is world class in it’s content & structure. A very exciting new program has now been implemented within all LA gym classes & we are very excited about the new syllabus which offers amazing opportunities to take exams, grading & gain many qualifications.
One of our many pupils who will benefit from the LA teacher training "Tiny T"
Beautiful new head shots by Tierney’s photography.
Sarah Kane: Full time Lee Academy
Emma Tara Casey: Fulltime Lee Academy
Laura Golcman: ex-Fulltime Lee Academy, now professional dancer
Jacqui Birch: Fulltime Lee Academy