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    ATOD Seminar Launch 2012

    Date: 29 December 2011

    Australian Teachers of Dancing Limited will be launching its new Contemporary Pre Level - L4 and Classical Test1 - Silver Star Syllabus throughout Australia during January and February 2012.

    Western Australia: Postponed.
    Cyril Road Hall, Cnr Cyril Road & Markham Street, High Wycombe

    Queensland: 20th January and 5th February.
    Silhouette School of Dance, 85 Nerang Street Waterford

    New South Wales: 21st January and 12th February.
    Dorothy Cowie School of Dance, Imar Community Centre, 2A Fitzroy Street, Croydon

    Victoria: 22nd & 23rd January
    Stonnington School of Dance, 96C Murrumbeena Road, Murrumbeena.
    Suggested parking at Murrumbeena Railway Station.

    Australian Capital Territory: 29th January
    Palmerston Community Hall, Tip Tree Crescent, Palmerston

    South Australia: 24th & 25th January
    Accent on Dance, 23 Valmal Avenue, Kings Park

    To register please complete the Registration Form and email to the Secretary or post to:

    Company Secretary
    Australian Techers of Dancing Limited
    P O Box 565
    Waterford   QLD   4133

    Australasian Scholarships 2011 Results

    Date: 31 July 2011

    Australasian Scholarships 2011 Results

    Justine Summers Award

    • Winner $2500                      Elese Hart
    • Runner Up $1000               Jaimee Logan
    • Encouragement $500       Vanessa Nanfra
    Winner of 1 year subscription to Dance Australia Magazine: Chloe Borreson

    David Atkins Award

    • Winner $2500                      Shannon Hatchman
    • Runner Up $1000               Jessie-Kate Bain
    • Encouragement $500       Stacey Anderson
    Winner of 1 year subscription to Dance Australia Magazine: Myra Turner

    Sub-Junior Jazz Scholarship

    • 1st         Madison Ayton
    • 2nd       Mikayla Di Mauro
    • 3rd        Guiliana Carniato
    • 4th        Casey Kime

    Junior Jazz Scholarship

    • 1st          Jia Hoelzl
    • 2nd        Bianca Wilson
    • 3rd         Harleigh Rose-Byrne
    • 4th         Olivia Carniato 

    Intermediate Jaz Scholarships

    • 1st         Ruby-Ray Bain
    • 2nd        Mary Spanos
    • 3rd         Amelia Latham
    • 4th         Jessica Bergen

     Senior Jazz Scholarship

    • 1st         Stephanie Di Coio
    • 2nd        Rosemary Osmond
    • 3rd            Emilia Kosiek
    • 4th         Kiana Gallop-Angeles

     

    Winner of 1 year subscription to Dance Australia Magazine: Victoria Kouloumentas 

    Sub Junior Tap Scholarship 

    • 1st         Kristin Sparks
    • 2nd        Meagan Boniface
    • 3rd         Jemma Polak
    • 4th         Olivia Di Coio

     Junior Tap Scholarship 

    • 1st         Tamara Camilleri
    • 2nd        Kayla Mastroianni
    • 3rd         Harleigh-Rose Byrne
    • 4th         Jade McNamara

     Intermediate Tap Scholarship

    • 1st         Amelia Latham
    • 2nd        Lisa Cardamone
    • 3rd         Natalie Burland
    • 4th         Casrina Fullgrabe

     Senior Tap Scholarship              

    • 1st         Ruby-Ray Bain
    • 2nd        Kate Malone
    • 3rd         Georgiana Boland
    • 4th         Joshua Warren

     

    Winner of 1 year subscription to Dance Australia Magazine: Kathryn Tullberg

     

    Sub Junior Classical Ballet Scholarship

    • 1st         Mikaela Logan
    • 2nd        Madison Ayton
    • 3rd         Irene Lewis
    • 4th         Claudia Bolam

     Junior Classical Ballet Scholarship

    • 1st         Casey Kime
    • 2nd        Jasmine Susic
    • 3rd         Dimitri Raptis
    • 4th         Isabella Smith

     Intermediate Classical Ballet Scholarship     

    • 1st         Olivia Pinna
    • 2nd        George Presnell
    • 3rd         Taylah Forbes
    • 4th         Jessica Bergin

     Senior Classical Ballet Scholarship                

    • 1st         Ruby-Ray Bain
    • 2nd        Ashleigh Thomason
    • 3rd         Breanne Elson
    • 4th         Emelia Kosiek 

     

    Winner of 1 year subscription to Dance Australia Magazine: Rebecca Leber

     

     

    Village Performing Arts Centre Summer School Scholarships:

    Sub Junior             Madison Ayton

    Junior                    Olivia Carniato

    Intermediate           Mary Spanos

    Senior                    Blake Carroll

     

    Australasian Energetiks Scholarships 2011

    Date: 31 July 2011

    A wonderful weekend of 20th Birthday celebrations, dance and camaraderie was held on the weekend of 29 – 31 July in Sydney. The weekend’s festivities commenced on Friday with scholarship classes held at The Village Performing Arts Centre in Alexandria. The Village PAC, run by Wayne Aspinall and Jacqui Howard, were so impressed with the standard of the dancing and the calibre of the students and the event that they offered 4 summer school scholarships to a recipient from each level of the jazz scholarships.
     
    A welcome cocktail party reception was held at the Coogee Bay Hotel in Coogee that evening where many teachers, students and parents had a delightful evening. State Organiser Margaret Kirkness, President Karen Malek and ATOD Directors hosted the event.

    Adjudicators included:

    • Jacqui Howard – Jazz & David Atkins Award
    • Marianne Howard – Tap & David Atkins Award
    • Paul Malek – guest adjudicator for David Atkins Award
    • Bertrand D’At, International guest adjudicator – Classical Ballet & Justine Summers Award
    • Wayne Aspinall & Delia Harrington – guest adjudicators for Justine Summers Award.
     
    The performances were held at the Science Theatre at the University of New South Wales in Kensington.