Dance Australia

Elise Frawley

How long have you been teaching?

27 years.

What drew you to teaching dance?

Growing up as a dancer I had always idolised my own teachers, not only for their expertise in dance but for their nurturing and their role in enhancing my own sense of confidence and self-belief.

Later, while I was studying for my degree in education at the University of Newcastle, I found myself drawn back to ballet

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