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With a passion for dancing from an early age, Dana began dancing at the age of 6 in Far North Queensland. With many years of study and hard work, Dana has studied and achieved formal qualifications in jazz, acro, ballet, lyrical and contemporary. Dana has had experience working with many syllabus having completed examinations in R.A.D, Cochetti, Living Dance and CSTD.

Growing up in small communities, Dana was offered her first assistant teaching role at the age of 11 here at JaBaT in 2012.  From here she has continued to grow and learn and was appointed Principal teacher in 2019.  

In 2015 Dana travelled to Sydney and achieved her teaching qualification in the Living Dance syllabus.  At just 15 she had to do a further year of assistant teaching to be granted her qualification as she was the youngest student to achieve such a qualification.  As an affiliated member of ComDance, Dana continues with her formal training and development opportunities under the CSTD syllabus.
In 2022, Dana completed her Acrobatic arts teaching qualification. 

With experience teaching every genre from Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, Contemporary and Hip Hop and everything else that has been thrown her way, Dana continues to educate herself so that the students are continuously reaching their full potential and learning to be the best that they can be.
Dana aims to create a positive and safe environment for every student at the studio.  With a firm belief that every student should be encouraged and nurtured to be their best self.  Having added to her family with the birth of her son in 2022,  Dana is looking forward to what the future has to hold.  Her love of dance has taught her that the opportunities are endless.