Just for fun while Mr Josh was in town Miss Jo, Damian & Josh decided to do a photoshoot out on location.
It was a great day & some awesome photos were created thanks to Damian’s talent with the camera.
More photos will be released in time but here’s a couple from the day.
Miss Jo
Mr Josh & Miss Jo
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
Yesterday Miss Jo & Damo called in to say hi to everyone who was at the studio at Circus Saturday. It was great to see everyone there having fun & enjoying learning cool stuff from Miss Laura & playing together in the gym.
Circus Saturday will be on in the holidays on the 10th & 17th July 9am – 3pm: make sure you drop in to play for a few hours!
Jess D bouncing on the 14m long trampoline on Saturday
Miss Laura helping Emily on trapeze
Danni & Sarah working on their silk tissue partnering
Congratulations to the Lee Academy Dancers who were selected to perform in this years Youth in Performing Arts Concerts! The annual Youth In Performing Arts, or “YIPA” concerts are a series of concerts that are run by Gosford Shire Council to showcase young talent on the Central Coast.
Performers are required to audition and 2010 saw over 400 acts try out for the 168 available positions. Lee Academy has many acts & students in the event. YIPA Coordinator Chris Cox said “This year saw a vast number of quality performers and the strongest level of competition for positions we had seen for a very long time.” making it one of the toughest years of competition they had seen in the show’s history.
Last Tuesday was a really fun night with our beautiful acro routine performing = of course the crowd went wild over it & many people had not seen anything like it before.
It was so much fun & our students were all exceptional.
A special thank you to Miss Danni, Miss Katie, Miss Jacqui & Cara for helping out so much with the junior students.
Acro routine in action!
Lee Academy wows the audience.
Miss Jo & LA team are excited to announce that the cast of “Wicked” is coming to visit our Tuggerah studio in the Winter School Holidays. The event is absolutely free!
Bookings essential: email: dance@leeacademy.com.au
For ALL Lee Academy members & families/friends as well as friends & fans of Lee Academy – Mums & Dads welcome
LEE ACADEMY EXCLUSIVE! – available only at Lee Academy on the Central Coast!
Thursday 15th July:
1.00pm start
(finish at approx. 2.30pm)
At LEE ACADEMY HEADQUARTERS: TUGGERAH!
*A brief performance by the stars of the show.
*A presentation of the “Making of WICKED” DVD.
*A Q&A session where some of the students will be asked to direct some questions at the performers.
*A group photo with the students and cast members.
*Signing of autographs.
Make sure you got the special information sheet about this exciting event & THE TICKET OFFER that was given to all students.
The WICKED production company is also offering the staff, parents and friends of Lee Academy an opportunity to see the production on either
Thursday 5th August at 8pm or Sunday 8th August at 3pm.
This is some of the work that Mr Joshua Horner did with one of the Lee Academy dancers Danni Hegarty when he was here. Joshua Horner, who is based in the USA as a professional choreographer, works with Lee Academy students whenever he is in Australia and this is what he achieved with Danni in just 2 hours in the studio.
All at Lee Academy are extremely proud and excited to announce that we have recently acquired a fully equipped dance studio which is now home to many of the Lake Munmorah classes.
Located at Unit 2, 7 David close, Doyalson, the new studio has 2 dance rooms, each with beautiful dance floors, mirrors and ballet barres.
Doyalson also has a dance supplies outlet within that supplies Lee Academy uniforms, shoes, diamonte jewelry and Lee Academy merchandise.
This expansion and upgrade has been a long time coming for the Northern end of the Coast & we thank you for your continued dedication and commitment to Lee Academy.
It has also been wonderful to welcome lots of new pupils to our Doyalson studio too as we purchased the studio: “Vogue Dancers” & would like to give everyone who was originally from Vogue a very warm welcome into our Lee Academy family.
Had an excellent first night back to class with the best of the best there ready to teach all our kids.
We started with Joshua Horner: formerly of the Australian Ballet Company & Broadway:now with Disney in USA as a choreographer & dance clinitian, he is back at Lee Academy to teach exclusively for the next 3 weeks.
Nathan Sheens (an original Tap Dog, constantly touring & has done many successful musicals as well) is our new resident tap technician & all the tap classes enjoyed his challenging tap classes once again tonight.
Lucas Newland is choreographing our latest Senior Advanced Jazz & it’s shaping up to be a killer routine!
Our LM studio launched into T2 with Di Banks our master acrobatics coach getting started with all the pupils level grading work & Miss B got stuck straight into her Hip-Hop routines which are shaping up to be her best ever.
Mr Josh with Mini-man : getting some personal the coaching from one of the best!
Nathan Sheens our new tap technician & class coach teaching last night.
Mr Natedog mixing it up!
Mr Josh teaching 15/u jazz recreational class = awesome fun!
Lucas Newland choreographing with Senior Advanced Jazz
Seniors hitting it!
Caption: Josh & Senior advanced contemporary
Plenty!