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Studio Principal and Teacher

I started dancing when I was 6 with Magda Moolman. Since there was only Ballet at the little town I grew up in, that was all I did till I was 12 years when my teacher could not teach anymore. In that year I was the only student in the Freestate to achieve Honours for RAD Senior Grade Ballet.

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When I was 16, Brigitte Kade drove to Clocolan for Ballet lessons and I started again.

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I continued dancing with her in Bloemfontein after school and did my Intermediate and Advanced 1 in RAD Ballet and also did a few Spanish exams.

 

In 1996 I passed my RAD Teachers with Distinction and took over Brigitte's Ladybrand studio and also opened a studio in Clocolan and Ficksburg and has been teaching there since.

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In 2009 I was approached by the Ficksburg parents to take over Sone Goosen's Modern, Tap and Hip Hop studio.

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I did all the required exams and passed my AIDT Associate with Honours in 2012.

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We were forced to move to Reitz in 2015 and from 2016 I also had a studio in Reitz.

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From 2017 I will be teaching in Bethlehem as well, having taken over Magda Heymans' studio.

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To be able to keep everything going I had to get an assistant teacher to help me. Thank you Corinne Marais

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CHarlene Naude

Assistant teacher

Corinne Marais

Corinne  Marais started Ballet at the age of 4.  She qualified as a RAD Teacher in 2000 and had her own studio in Welkom for

12 years until they moved to Ladybrand.

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She assisted me several times during the last 4 years and is busy qualifying herself as a Modern, Tap and Hip Hop teacher.

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She has done a couple of Modern exams with me which she all passed with Honours with Distinction and received incredible praise from all examiners. 

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