Daisy Turnbull, Director of Coeducation and Academy

Introducing Cranbrook Dance!  

Starting in 2025 Cranbrook will be running co-curricular dance classes for students in our school community and on our waitlist in Years 5 – 8. Whether your child is already a dancer, or wants to learn dance to improve their strength and balance for sports, Cranbrook Dance will be a fantastic coeducational opportunity for students.  

Dance will be run by Chelsea Slender, who began her training as a competitive artistic gymnast and later switched her focus to dance. She studied classical ballet, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, musical theatre and acrobatics at various studios between 2006-2012, completing her training at the Village Performing Arts Centre in 2013 and 2014. Chelsea completed her HSC in 2014 achieving a band 6 in Dance and the status of a NSW Top All Rounder. She also performed in amateur productions of Grease and Bugsy Malone. In 2015 Chelsea spent the year abroad in Israel partaking in the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s prestigious pre-professional course where she was privileged to learn from a variety of leading Israeli choreographers including Rami Be’er (KCDC) and Ohad Naharin (Batsheva Dance Company). In 2017, she was offered a position to join both Kolben Dance Company and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company 2. Returning home due to injury, Chelsea continued to remain connected to the world of dance, teaching ballet, jazz, contemporary, and musical theatre at Tutu Studios as well as at a private school in the Eastern Suburbs from 2018 – 2020 where she choreographed a variety of routines for end of year concerts. 

The Cranbrook Dance curriculum will follow four 8 week blocks in each term, focusing on basic movement and dance techniques as well as choreographies that will be performed at school events and eventually at Dance Eisteddfods.  

Daisy Turnbull
Director of Coeducation and Academy