Provides dance tuition.

After professional careers in the United States that spanned over a decade, Kristy Tancred & Rider D. Vierling are proud to bring Newcastle Ballet Theatre to the Hunter Region. Newcastle Ballet Theatre will be offering a wide range of classes for tiny tots, to beginners to pre-professionals and adults. In addition to our ACB syllabus and open ballet classes, we will also be offering Boys Classes, Pas de Deux, Contemporary, Jazz/Hip Hop, Pilates, Stretch / Conditioning Tiny Tots ballet, Adult ballet classes and a full time training program designed for the serious student wishing to have a career as a professional dancer or teacher. Our aim is to provide professional training within a creative, caring and challenging environment where every student can flourish. We want to make our school an enjoyable place to come and learn such a disciplined art form, and we genuinely care that we get the absolute best out of each student so they can reach their full potential.

In the three best rated dance schools in the region. Owner featured in Dance Studio Secrets - a book profiling 20 successful dance studio owners from around the globe.

National College of Dance’s vision is to be recognised as the leading classically trained classical, contemporary and commercial training facility in regional Australia touching the dance community with our uniqueness, creativity, choreography, collaborations and training methods. We provide a space where young dancers can be educated and supported for their individuality within structured yet freely creative environment. NCD support the student as the whole person, understanding their dreams and assisting them to create a reality through hard work, respect and resilience. We do this by engaging with the most knowledgeable, artistic and support team of staff and guest teachers as well as via our community of family all working together to make NCD the safe, successful and creative environment for all dancers.

The East Maitland Academy of Dance is run by János Szabó, a member of the Hungarian National Ballet who took over the school, which was establishedin 1947, in 2009. The aims of the school are to create an optimal learning environment in order to enable the students to achieve the highest level they are capable of in the genre they wish to pursue. Classical Ballet training provides the technical support base form which all the other genres of dance benefit. Students are guided by highly skilled professionals in Classical (R.A.D), Vaganova, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary and Musical Theatre.