DreamTyme Dance Academy

Introducing you to the DREAMTYME DANCE ACADEMY

Classes in 2015:
Ballet - R.A.D (Compulsory for all competitive athletes).
Jazz
Pom
Lyrical
Hip Hop
Dance Doubles – audition process (must also be in dance team)

Team Selections/ Come and Try: Round 2.
- Week starting Sunday the 8h - 14th of February

Email: info@dreamtymeallstars.com.au
to find out appropriate day and times.

Location: Fairhills Primary School
Manuka Drive, Ferntree Gully, 3156

Dance Double Auditions
Sunday 8th of February
Time: 9am -10:30am
All age groups and categories.

Call backs 15th of February.
Only one dance double per age division per style (Jazz, Pom, Hip hop)
Youth (12 and under), Junior (15 and under), Senior (10 – 18years), Open (14years and over)

2015 DreamTyme Dance Academy Dance Teams:
• Tinies: SpaceCadets (3-5years)
• Minis: MilkyWays, Jazz and Pom (9 years and under)
• Junior: Stars, Jazz and Pom (15 years and under)
• Senior AG: SolarFlares, Jazz and Pom (18 years and under)
• Open: Galaxy Jazz and Pom (14years +)
• Open Elite: Electric Jazz (14years +)
• Open Elite: Infinity Pom (14years +)

Teaching Staff:

Natalie Commons (Pom, Jazz, lyrical & Cheer)
Miss Nat has over 19 years of experience in Cheerleading, Dance and Gymnastics and is an IASF level 5 credentialed cheerleading coach. She has been coaching Dance since 2004 and has been a sports coach since 1998. In 2013 she was the assistant coach of the Team Australia Freestyle Pom Dance Team, who took home Australia's first medal at the IASF Cheer and Dance Worlds coming in second place. In 2011 Miss Nat represented Australia, as an athlete, at the 2011 ICU World Championships in Freestyle Dance (Pom) and IASF Dance Worlds.

Miss Nat has also has represented Australia as Co-Captain of the 2012 ICU All-Girl Level 5 Cheer Team winning a bronze medal.
In 2013, she was assistant coach to the Team Australia All-Girl Level 5 Cheerleading team taking home a silver medal at the ICU World Championships.

She was also head coach of the 2014 level 6 DreamTyme DreamGirls squad who placed 10th at the IASF Worlds.

Miss Nat is a qualified secondary school teacher having studied Applied Science - Physical Education at Victoria University and was awarded the ACHPER award for the most outstanding student in this course, she also studied her DipEd at The University of Melbourne, majoring in physical education, psychology and student wellbeing.

Paige Nash-Ferry (Ballet, Pom, Jazz, Lyrical)
Miss Paige has been dancing for the past 21 years. Her training includes extensive study in ballet including 2 years full time at the National Theatre Ballet School. She began Pom in 2011 and has since competed twice at the IASF Dance Worlds placing 2nd in 2013.
In 2015 Miss Paige will be representing DreamTyme at the 2015 IASF Dance Worlds, in the dance category JAZZ. This is the first time DreamTyme will be taking a Dance team over to this prestigious event.

Miss Paige is currently studying Occuptaional Therapy.


Darin Inkster (Hip Hop)
Darin “Daz” Inkster is an Elite HIP HOP & Tumbling coach at DreamTyme All Stars.

Daz has performed as an acrobat/dancer/character for 4 years with Cirque Du Soleil touring shows ‘Saltimbanco’ and 3 seasons with ‘Wintuk” resident show at Madison Square Gardens New York City.

His credits also include working with Danni Minogue, choreographing for singer Lucy White and complete works theatre company, performing at the Loreal Fashion Festival, Next Wave Festival and dancing with ‘Wicked Force’ Breakers.


Dana Jolly
Dana’s career began at the age of 9, when she played Gypsy Rose Lee as a child in the musical ”Gypsy” at ‘Her Majesty’s Theatre’ Melbourne. Dana then went on to train at the Victorian College of Arts, where she received a number of Scholarships to further her career. Before travelling overseas, Dana danced with the Victorian State Opera and the Australian Contemporary Dance Company.

Dana then moved to London, where she spent 10 years between1989 – 1999 dancing and choreographing in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. Her credits include Wayne Sleeps “Hollywood and Broadway” UK Tour, “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, “Song and Dance” UK & Europe tour, “Royal Variety Performance”, British Music Awards, National Music Express Awards London, “Shall we Dance” tour, Winter Olympics Norway, various fashion and Hair shows UK and Japan, TV, Film, Video clips and World Pop Tours. She has worked with such artists as Ray Charles, Madonna, Gloria Estefan, East 17, Cliff Richards, The Kinks, Prince, Ewan Mc Greggor, Alexei Sayle, Ronnie Corbett, Hale and Pace, Michael Ball and Michael Crawford to name a few.

Dana returned to Australia as Resident Choreographer on Susan Stromans “Showboat” for which she received a Green Room Award Nomination, and was then invited to go back to Europe for 3 months to Co Choreograph and stage “ The Miss World Competition.”

Various projects back in Australia have included choreography for several Australian Pop Artists, The Diva Awards with Bob Downe, and corporate jobs for companies such as Crown Casino, Australia Post. The Liberal Party, Alanna Madeleine Foundation, and Austral Bricks to name a few. Dana went on to be Resident Choreographer for the Australian production of “ We Will Rock You”, and “ The Producers “, and in 2007 and 2008, she was invited to Malaysia to choreograph a cast of 2,000 dancers and puppeteers in Citrawarna “Colours Of Malaysia Festival” celebrating 50 years of Independence.

Dana’s choreography extends to a number of television commercials for the channel 9 network including The Footy Show and Bert’s Family Feud, as well as being the choreographer and movement consultant to Melbourne City Councils Moomba Parade and Water Festival for 3 years. She has choreographed 2 productions for The Victorian Opera, and the cabaret show “Everybody Loves Rhonda” for the opening of The Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Dana’s Musical Theatre credits also include the workshop of a new Australian musical “Strange Bedfellows”, with Roger Hodgman. John Foreman and Kellie Dickenson, “Respect’ the musical staring Rhonda Burchmore and Lucy Durack, and 8 productions for The Production Company, including “Anything Goes”, “Kiss Me Kate”, “Thoroughly Modern Millie”, “Little Me”, “Follies”, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “Grey Gardens”, and “Showboat”. In 2012 Dana had the privilege, of choreographing the Australian Musical premiere of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, which toured Australia throughout 2012 & 2013. She was then invited to choreograph the Sydney premiere of the musical ” Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” at Sydney’s Theatre Royal later in 2013.