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The Most Distressing Phone Call
I had a distressing phone call yesterday. It’s one I receive all too often. A parent, who is stressed & doing their very best for their child, asking me to [...]
Q & A with Jodie – Matilda and Annika’s mum
Why did you choose to come to Academy Ballet? Matilda had outgrown her tiny tot ballet school. Her principal asked me to find a good ballet school for her to [...]
Q & A with Amy – Dash’s mum
Why did you choose to come to Academy Ballet? Identity - a sense of history; a feeling of belonging to an established part of the Sydney ballet world; an appreciation [...]
Q & A with Christine – Lexine’s mum
Why did you choose to come to Academy Ballet? Originally it was because it was convenient (next door to Lexine’s infants school and down the road from our home) but [...]
Q & A with Alberta’s mum
Why did you choose to come to Academy Ballet? We chose Academy Ballet as it came across as a professional/ well-known school. What is something that Academy Ballet offers you [...]
Q & A with Michele – Tash’s mum
Why did you choose to come to Academy Ballet? Variety of dance styles. Teaching staff with qualifications and experience and in teaching. Classes are held in one studio with flooring [...]
One thousand nine hundred and ninety nine days
****TRIGGER WARNING**** I never understood chronic Illness. Especially those you cannot see. I think I thought I understood but really I was compassionate when someone was explaining their illness but [...]
11 Little reasons I’m happy to be an adult
Life can be tough. And sometimes you just don’t want to adult. Right now, I reeeaalllly want to be on a plane to exotic Greek Islands....thanks Corona. I don’t want [...]
She breathed….this week she was alive again
I have to say in the middle of Iso I wondered what it was all for. Not life but work. My studio. Was it worth it? It hurt to think [...]
Post Iso – Living with Intent
If you’re anything like me you’re a walking poster for all the things you probably should have achieved in iso... Write that book Get super fit Learn to knit Start [...]
If Corona has given us anything, its given us the time to reset. Use it!
I've had a few parents (both at Ash's school and the studio) express their concern to me that because of the Coronavirus their child will be behind. And I'm trying [...]
Do you Pineapple Friday?
Does your husband sometimes say something and you just have no clue what they mean? Like Australianisms or every just husbandisms Like, can you get the dead horse? What! So [...]
