Dance Off!

KIM RHODES

Founder & Director / Camp Organiser / Lyrical Jazz / Choreographic workshops

Kim Rhodes has been a trained dancer since a young age, studying classical ballet, tap and jazz. Kim has taught dance in a variety of Sydney based schools including the Tammy Worth Academy for Dance and Arts, and the Parramatta Ballet Theatre Academy. In 2003 Kim began training in Salsa and was dancing internationally within the following year. Kim represented Australia in The World Salsa Congress in 2004 in Los Angeles with partner Csaba Zirmai and again in England in 2005.

In 2006 Kim returned to her training in Lyrical Jazz at the Sydney Dance Company Studios and was asked to become a member of the Sydney Dance Company Studios Professional Performance Team. She has performed at the Australian Dance Awards at the Sydney Opera House and the Australian Audi launch. Kim has just been selected as a dancer in the upcoming movie “Mao’s Last Dancer”, working with Graeme Murphy. Kim is the director of her own Dance Centre “Motive Academy of The Body” in Sydney which holds open classes across a range of styles for both beginner and experienced dancers.

At the same time, Kim has been a school teacher within the Western Region for over 7 years and has worked hard to provide her students with technical and performance based training.  Now, Assistant Principal for Parramatta West Public School, she is the Creator and organiser of “Dance Off! Junior” – a three day camp for gifted primary school dancers from within Sydney's Western Region.

LAUNCELOT ROMA

Director / Camp Organiser / Funk & Hip Hop / Choreographic Workshops

Launcelot started his professional dance career at the age of five years old performing on stage productions and on variety television shows in Asia. From a young age, his family migrated to Australia where he pursued dance by forming a troupe for the underground Sydney Hip Hop scene and at thirteen years choreographed routines which would win Hip Hop battles in Sydney’s west.

Since then, Launce has trained in a variety of professional dance studios in Sydney and abroad including Sydney Dance Company, Brent Street Sydney, Broadway Dance Company - New York, Pineapple Studios - London, Kim Kan Dance Studio in Paris, Millenium  and Debbie Reynolds Dance Studios in Los Angeles. He has performed as a backup dancer and alongside various Sydney and International dance artists and musicians such as Human Nature, CDB, Belinda Emmett and  Natalie Bassingthwaighte.  Launcelot is also NIDA trained in acting and stage performance.

In 2004, he coordinated youth workshops in movement and dance in Sydney’s west for a major Christian Rock Concert event. 2004 & 2005 main cast role in RENT The Musical. In 2006 & 2007 he was a director and choreographer for an independent theatre company producing musicals and stage performances. He has also taught in various dance studios and in high schools. At present, he is a high school teacher who is passionate and involved in performance and dance education. He joins the exuberant team of “Dance Off! Senior” as the organiser of a three day camp for the gifted High school dancers from within Sydney's Western Region.