Dance Australia

Shelley Wakefield

What do you enjoy about your job?

Teaching dance is such a rewarding and fulfilling vocation. There is no better moment than when a student who has been working on a particular step or perhaps a balance smiles "that smile". Their eyes light up, and sometimes, a whole classroom erupts to congratulate the dancer. We spend a lot of time convincing dancers, "You can!!!" then there is the

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