Dance

Dance Staff 2023 

Dance at Pymble is a multifaceted program with 6 x Streams across Cocurricular and Curricular K – 12. The operations behind the program have some amazing dedicated and passionate staff members who all care about your daughter’s journey in Dance. 

Please see below for our Dance Staff 2023. 

Key Dance Staff

This term we welcome Miss Genevieve Gardiner as our Dance Program Coordinator and congratulate Miss Samantha Hibburt who is now our Dance Program Manager. 

Co-curricular Dance Staff

Director of Performing Arts – Mr Michael Griffiths 

Head of Dance – Miss Katrina Cluff

Dance Program Manager – Miss Samantha Hibburt 

Dance Program Coordinator – Miss Genevieve Gardiner 

Performing Arts Administration – Mrs Alysha Marsden 

Curricular Dance

Head of Learning Area – Mr Marcus Stafford 

Academic Dance Teachers – Mrs Keya Pettigrew, Miss Melissa Cooper-Findlay, Mrs Rebecca York, Miss Katrina Cluff

We will soon publish our comprehensive list of all 25 Casual Dance Staff with their Bio’s and Photos so you can learn more about your daughters Dance Teacher. 

2022 RAD Ballet Examination Results

Congratulations to all 60 of our Ballet students and staff for an amazing year last year. Term 4 was busy for ballet preparing for both the Showcase and the Royal Academy of Dance Ballet Exams. The dedication from all resulted in high quality results which we are incredibly proud to share. 

We would like to congratulate all 13 students who received a Distinction and in particular, Stella Pieterse who received the top result with a High Distinction. This is an incredible result, considering the girls had two years off exams due to covid. We also had 17 students entered for the Class Award Exams and we couldn’t have been happier with their results. 

A massive thank you to Miss Emma Dulvey, Miss Hannah Fowler, Miss Laura Fishwick and Mr Mitch Rayner for your passion and dedication in supporting our students in their ballet journey throughout the year, to Miss Phoebe Walker for her individualised approach in our private lessons and to Mrs Sonja Shulze, our Dance Physiotherapist for her care of the dancers. 

We could not have managed the exam days without our dedicated Dance parent helper Mrs Danielle Scott for turning all our beautiful students into ballerinas on exam day by assisting them with their hair and attire and Miss Samantha Hibburt and Miss Laura Fishwick for Coordinating all ballet events, mock exams, workshops and classes which contributed to the girl’s success. 

We are excited for 2023 Pymble Ballet and all the exciting opportunities this year will bring.

Katrina Cluff

Head of Dance