This month’s Membership Focus spotlights In Movement Dance Works and the varied vary of dance, acro, circus, and aerial companies they supply to their area people.
We had the pleasure of chatting with Keeley, a former scholar for 13 years who’s been sharing her ardour as a instructor for the previous 9 years at IMDW.
How did your membership begin?
In-Movement Danceworks began 30 years in the past by Rebecca Elliott! It started as a dance studio and has developed to supply dance, acrobatics, singing and circus to the local people!
I (Keeley) started instructing at IMD 9 years in the past at simply 16 years previous after studying dance and acrobatics right here for 13 years prior. Since then, I’ve assisted in creating the acrobatics program to cater for newbies to superior. Ranging from solely 3 courses to now providing 8 completely different courses together with a boys solely tumbling, newbies and superior tumbling.
What number of youngsters do you prepare and what talent ranges?
At our dance studio now we have 165 college students and 79 of them do acrobatics! I at present educate roughly 30 college students however have taught a whole bunch during the last 9 years of instructing. I’ve taught college students from newbies to superior, 2.5 years to of their 20s!
Do you will have any applications for youngsters with particular wants?
As a small city, we at present don’t provide unique courses for particular wants college students. We’re an inclusive college wherein caters for all ranges of studying and growth inside our present timetabled courses.
What’s your organisation’s imaginative and prescient/mission assertion?
In-Movement Danceworks strives to supply a secure and nurturing setting the place college students can really be themselves and discover their potential. We cater courses to every age group and use advantage and sticker programs to maintain our youthful college students engaged and motivated.
We even have competitors groups which help in maintaining our college students striving for his or her full potential to compete for our studio.
What are some goals of your membership?
IMD’s goals are to proceed to service the group because the Finest Performing Arts within the Shire. We attempt to proceed to enhance our services, develop our instructor’s data and certifications and be an outlet for our college students to be themselves.
What are you most pleased with in your membership?
In 2024, IMD is celebrating 30 years of operation! On this time now we have developed from a small dance studio, to providing all types of dance, acrobatics, circus and singing.
IMD was awarded the Finest Performing Arts in Wollondilly in 2023 and in 2024 our principal, Rebecca Elliott was awarded the Most Excellent Enterprise Particular person of the 12 months within the Shire! A real testomony to her laborious work in constructing the superb studio and group now we have in the present day!
In 2024 our acrobatics college students started competing at eisteddfods as a troupe. They took out the ‘Most Entertaining Troupe’ of the day at their first competitors which was a tremendous outcome!
Why do you suppose your membership is vital to households and your group?
IMD is extraordinarily vital inside our group. As a small rural city, In-Movement Danceworks supplies the group with a cutting-edge studio with sprung flooring, mirrors, rigged ceilings, tumble tracks and mats. Our studio permits college students to study expertise in a secure setting, while studying from licensed and expert academics!
The studio provides alternatives to college students they don’t get from anybody else inside our small city. Together with USA dance excursions, NRL and A-League performances, alternatives for auditions, dance and circus concert events in theatres.
What piece of recommendation would you give to a gymnast/scholar?
By no means surrender! College students typically suppose a talent will come in a single day however that isn’t true! You need to do the drills to get the talents, so have endurance. Belief the method and it’ll profit you in the long term!
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