Dance Pointe Academy prides itself in having highly motivated, enthusiastic, well trained teachers who are amongst the best in their field, all teachers are fully disclosed with Dislosure Scotland.
Artistic Director
Julie McInally AISTD
Julie started dancing at the age of 3 and hasn't stopped since!!!! Gaining entrance to Dance For All Theatre School's full time professional Dance Course in Edinburgh. She trained for three years studying ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and musical theatre , at the same time getting a taste of other styles within this time including flamenco, singing and national.She graduated with an HND in Professional Stage Dance and an Associate Teaching qualification with the ISTD (the world's leading dance examination board). For the past 8 years, Julie has performed in and choreographed many productions both singing
and dancing, she has been teaching throughout Edinburgh and Lothians in many well known and established dance schools, clubs and organisations including Dance Base, Dance For All, Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh University, Buckstone Youth
Dance, Midlothian Active Schools, North Edinburgh Arts and much
more.
Julie left Scotland for a year and traveled through out North America,
South East Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Islands; throughout this
time she attended numerous classes gaining valuable experience
along the way (most notably on Broadway, New York. As well as running
DPA, Julie is is now completing a BA Honours Degree in Dance, learning innovative
teaching and choreographic skills at the Performance Arts Studio of Scotland.
Ballet - Tap - Commercial - Contemporary
Rona Anderson ISTD
We are pleased to announce a new member of staff to our school, Rona Anderson will be teaching ballet, tap, contemporary and commercial
jazz on Wednesday and Friday afternoons.
Rona graduated from Dance For All with an HND in Professional Stage Dance and ISTD teaching qualifications. She has danced in many shows throughout Scotland during her time as a professional dancer and has just
recently came back home from dancing and working in London to continue
her career as a dance teacher.
Break dance
Remady (Emma Hamilton)
Remady starting b' girling in 1997, she studied with Allan Irvine and Wallace
Sulley, co founders of Scottish hip hop and contemporary dance company, FreshMesh. Since then she has travelled all over the UK, Europe and South America taking part in battles, workshops and performances. Emma has
since trained with many great dancers from all over the globe including Storm (Germany), Rockafella (USA), Project Soul (Korea), Lil Tim (UK) and many
more.
In 2008 Emma was privelaged to get a place on the hip hop theatre workshop festival, Process '08, taught by Kwickstep and Rockafella, this was a rare
opportunity in which she was able to work and learn from some of the world's
most innovative and pioneering hip hop masters. She has been teaching since
2003 throughout the UK for companies such as BBC, EA Games,
Fast Forward Flyin' Jalepenos, Flyright Dance Company, Sin Cru, WHALE
and Y Dance.
Singing / Music Theatre
Graeme McDonald
Graham is an extremely talented adaptable musician who can turn his hand to a wide variety of musical styles. From a young age, Graham was drawn to the piano and went to study at Northern College, Aberdeen where he was awarded a scholarship to the North East of Scotland Music School. Graham now teaches class music at Penicuik High School and piano at the Penicuik Music School. He plays in trio Fantoosh! , regularly performs solo piano recitals, works as an accompanist for many musical theatre groups and choirs through out Scotland.
Class Assistants
Kirsty Wardhaugh
Chloe Dallanegra
