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    • 2024-25 Calendar
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    • Customer Portal
    • Class Descriptions
      • Ballet
      • Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop
      • Teacher’s Assistant program/ Personal Dance Assistant Program
    • Schedule
    • Tuition and Policies
    • Faculty
    • Uniforms
  • Coastal Dance Theatre
  • Birthday Parties
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ALUMNI

We encourage our dancers to audition for world class programs.
Here are some of the Professional Programs and Companies our dancers have attended. Click the School or company name to visit these fabulous places!

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 Alberta Ballet School 

American Ballet Theatre SS

Ballet B.C.

Boston Ballet School

Boston Conservatory

Canada’s Ballet Jorgen

Ecole supérieure de ballet du Quebec

George Brown College

Joffrey Ballet School

The Julliard School

Les Grands Ballet Canadiens  

National Ballet of Canada

National Ballet School of Canada

Netherlands Dance Theatre

North Carolina School of the Arts

The Rock School

Royal Winnipeg Ballet School

School of Toronto Dance Theatre

 

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Nora Oakey: Senior Artistic Advisor

Nora Oakey trained under Lusia Pavlychenko in Saskatoon and Celia Franca at the National Ballet School. She performed with the Banff Centre Opera.  She holds her RAD Advanced Certificate as well as her RAD Teaching Diploma. An Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance, she directed Scotia Ballet Studio from 1982-1992 before becoming Artistic Advisor for Coastal Dance in 1994. 

Robyn Zwicker BPE, BEd, MEd, CYT

Yoga

Robyn is passionate about sharing her love of yoga with children. She has been teaching children for over 20 years as she is also a Physical Education teacher with the Halifax Regional School Board. Robyn is a Certified 200 hour Adult yoga teacher as well as 95 hour certified Children’s yoga teacher.

Modern, Hip Hop

Georgia Skinner trained in classical dance since age three at Coastal Dance and continued to train in contemporary, modern, ballet (RAD) and hip hop through high school. She graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Training Program.  She has worked with many esteemed dance artists such as Christopher House, Darryl Tracy, Robert Desrosiers, and Ted Robinson.  She has attended ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival in Vienna, Austria. 

She is currently working as a  Paramedic .

 Ballet / Jazz

Julia has trained at Coastal Dance where she has studied many styles of dance including ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary and lyrical. For over a decade She was a leading member of  Coastal Dance Theatre Society. Performing lead roles in productions such as Clara in the “The Nutcracker”, Alice in “Alice in Winterland”, and Scrooge in  “A Christmas Carol”. Julia  holds her Royal Academy of Dance Advanced 2 certificate.

She has danced professionally with local choreographers throughout the city and  is a member of the Thunderbirds dance team.

A 2020 Graduate of  Dalhousie University and  2022 a graduate of Mount St.Vincent in education. Now a teacher in the HRCE.

 

Ballet, Body Conditioning(PBT)

Carol trained in England at the Westbury School of Dance and Drama and the  Urdang Academy of Performing Arts in Covent Garden, London.  Professionally performing  in Tunisia , North Africa. where she settled and ran her own RAD school for many years. After moving to Nova Scotia she taught at several local schools. 

She is  an Associate of The Society of Russian Ballet as well as an RAD registered teacher and has her Certification in Progressive Ballet Technique.  She also acts as Rehearsal Mistress for Coastal Dance Theatre Society.

OWNER

Certified and Registered Teacher in Royal Academy Dance , PBT body conditioning

Director/Owner  since 1994.   Micaela   trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Banff Centre for the Arts and graduated from École Supérieure de Danse du Québec. She has  studied in Germany, Toronto, Pennsylvania & New York. She holds her Royal Academy of Dance Advanced 2 & her Russian Advanced certificate.

Micaela has performed professionally with Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Les Jeune Ballets de Quebec and at the Toronto Fringe Festival of Independent Artists (Ffida), Halifax Live Art & the Atlantic Fringe Festival . She has been awarded  Nova Scotia Talent Trust Awards, The Banff Centre for the Arts Scholarship, and the Canada Council Emerging Artist award.

She is an elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance(ARAD) and is a Royal Academy of Dance Registered Teacher(RTS).  And is certified  in the Progressive Ballet Technique.

Her students have attended  some of the most prestigious schools and professional companies in the world such as The Juilliard School, Joffery Ballet School, Boston Ballet School, The National Ballet School of Canada, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Toronto Dance Theatre and Netherlands Dance Theatre II, Albert Ballet II, Ballet B.C.