Faculty

After teaching dance for over 10 years, Miss Julie has decided to bring the love of dance to Dorchester.  

At age five, Miss Julie began taking ballet lessons with Judith Coleman's Oxford School of Dance.  She fell in love with the art and couldn't get enough.  

She studied classical ballet through the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) syllabus and successfully completed numerous graded exams including the Intermediate Foundations and Intermediate Exams.  She also achieved a number of medals through the British Association of Teachers of Dance (BATD) in both ballet and jazz.  

As years went on, Miss Julie's love of dance grew and she decided to take on more disciplines such as lyrical, jazz and hip hop.  

She danced competitively for three years throughout Ontario. 

Miss Julie likes to keep up her training by attending workshops and seminars.  She is so excited to bring her knowledge, experience and passion of dance to Dorchester.   

She welcomes everyone to Dance in Dorchester and looks forward to a wonderful year of dance! 

Elizabeth loves being able to share her passion for dance with other people through teaching and dancing! Elizabeth has a genuine love for ballet and believes that having a large focus on technique will provide dancers a strong base in all other styles of dance. Along with ballet, Elizabeth has loved and studied many other styles of dance including tap, lyrical, jazz, modern and acro.

At the age of three, she fell in love with ballet and completed Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) exams from Pre-Primary all the way up to Advanced Foundations, as well as studying Advanced 1. During this time, Elizabeth studied at Dara-Jane Jewer School of Dance (Woodstock), Dance Aarts Academy (Stratford), Oxford School of Dance (Ingersoll), and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School's Professional Division Program in 2011. For the past two years, she has enjoyed teaching ballet, pointe and tap.

When Elizabeth isn't dancing, she is busy as the Camp Director at Camp Connect in Thamesford. 

In her spare time, Elizabeth loves biking, walking trails and playing baseball. Elizabeth is very excited to join JNS Dance and share her love of dance!

Madison is passionate about working with youth. She has been teaching dance for the past 4 years in London. She teaches a number of different disciplines including tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop and musical theater. 

She also worked as a dance camp counselor for 5 years and as head counselor for 3 of those years.  She is currently attending Western University to achieve a bachelor in psychology in hopes to work as a Child Life Specialist in the future. 

Madison danced for 11 years at Dance Extreme in London where she also competed for 9 of the years. She competed in jazz, tap, musical theater, contemporary and hip hop. In that time, she achieved a Tap Scholarship from Dance Canada. She also performed on the London Lightning Dance Pak for two years. 

As well as teaching dance classes, Miss Madison has choreographed musicals at an elementary school for a couple years. Her shows included High School Musical Jr and the Wizard of Oz. 

Madison loves teaching dancers of all ages and sharing her knowledge and love of dance.