WELCOME
Thames Hauraki Dance Theatre (THDT)
Director – Sarah Fitzsimons ARAD, Ad Dip ABS PDTC and Registered teacher with the RAD, Rambert Grades and NZAMD.
Welcome to Thames Hauraki Dance Theatre – A place for creativity, movement, and friendship. We provide a positive environment for children and adults. At THDT we make dance fun, rewarding and a total mind and body experience. Dance classes focus on improving posture, technique, co-ordination, confidence, musicality, flexibility and strength.
SARAH FITZSIMONS
Sarah Fitzsimons ARAD, Ad Dip ABS PDTC and Registered teacher with the RAD and NZAMD Ex Dancer with the Royal Ballet Company in London. My passion is teaching dance in a safe, fun and holistic way. After 12 years as a professional dancer, I have been teaching since 2001 and love to keep learning. My teaching methodology is based on anatomical principles I have learnt through Pilates and GYROTONIC® training as well as 20 years on the staff at the New Zealand School of Dance. A mother of two, I am also trained in massage and Reiki.
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CLASSES
BALLET
Classical Ballet classes follow the Royal Academy Of Dance syllabus from Pre-Primary to Solo Seal. Examinations are optional.
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The Rambert Grades syllabus offers students the opportunity to develop lifelong skills. Rambert Grades encourages young people to own their individuality, be playful, work in a present manner, think independently, relate with others and have confidence in decision making while learning and embodying our three strands, Technique, Performance and Creative.
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Hip Hop is a street style dance originating from the Bronx in New York City in the 1970s. Constantly evolving, it is a free, funky and soulful expression of movement.
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Sarah Fitzsimons ARAD, Ad Dip ABS PDTC
Sarah originally trained in Sydney with Wendy Fallon, Christine Keith, Kim Traynor and Lois Strike before going to the Royal Ballet School in London. An RAD Genée Finalist , she was then offered a place with the Royal Ballet Company at Covent Garden.