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Granite Belt Performing Arts Hub

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Granite Belt Performing Arts Hub

Contact us to book your event or classes. See Additional Info for classes on offer. Contact Naima Furness via email [email protected] or phone 0409001634.
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A fully functional and fitted out space offering a dance studio, a private lesson/music/drama studio space, a public meeting space and an intimate performance space. The Granite Belt Performing Arts Hub - for dance and performance arts classes, and for hire. This multi-purpose space is available for professionals, groups and individuals to hire – for activities such as dance, exercise, band practi

ce, workshop and performance events, one-on-one classes, personal training, meetings, arts and craft. CLASSES currently on offer through the dance space - Contact the individual teachers/businesses for further information –
• Academy of Dance Stanthorpe offering ballet and contemporary classes for ages 10 and up. Contact or phone 0407 290 182;
• Acrobatics - Contact Leonie Taylor via email [email protected] or phone 0455452016;
* Latin Nights in Stanthorpe - Contact Fiona 0408 440 481 or join https://www.facebook.com/groups/754724995147660
• Little Dancers - Contact Leonie Taylor via email [email protected] or phone 0455452016;
• Musical Theatre and Dance for ages 4-7. The venue has 4 different areas available to hire including a dance studio, a public meeting space, a private lesson/music/drama studio and an intimate Performance space which can accommodate up to approx 40 in the audience to comply with Covid-Safe plans. Other communal amenities include a kitchenette (with fridge & microwave), inside Toilet and tables & chairs as required. If you would like to make a regular or one-off booking for any of these spaces, please contact us.

Address

4/7 Reeves Road
Stanthorpe, QLD
4380

Telephone

+61417730377

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Puttin’ on the Ritz!

The Ritz Performing Arts Centre has been operating since 1985 and in Stanthorpe since 2006.

It is our aim to bring you the best available teachers to provide the finest tuition for your child. Ritz Director, Rhonda Binnie, extended Ritz classes to Stanthorpe due to her passion for providing opportunities to learn dance and other performance arts, and she continues to show her commitment and serve our Stanthorpe students by travelling from Brisbane every week to deliver tap, ballet and Teacher Training courses in all forms of dance, along with Carleon Russell, who teaches musical theatre, singing, and speech and drama. The Ritz Stanthorpe proudly also employs fully qualified and very experienced local teachers, and in 2019 we were very excited to welcome back one of our original Stanthorpe students, this time as a teacher! Jade McInnerney teaches our Ready Set Dance classes for 2-5 year olds, along with jazz to our junior students. She is joined by other exceptionally qualified local teachers - Megan Lynch teaching ballet and contemporary, Xanthe Mastrogiannis teaching jazz, and Stacey Faux teaching acrobatics. Our Stanthorpe Student Teachers are Faithe Repo and Taylah Organ who are being trained at The Ritz and are currently studying to gain their Teachers Certificates or Teachers Diplomas with the C.S.T.D. & T.C.L. (https://www.ritzdance.com/faculty) We are also thrilled to bring regular professional dancers and Teachers to our Stanthorpe studio to give our regional students the opportunity to learn from some of the best in the business.

Our Stanthorpe school is proud to have had students go on to become professional entertainers in the Ballet and Musical Theatre areas of the entertainment industry in Australia. As well, we have had several students go on to tertiary studies in Performing Arts in Qld and Interstate. We are proud that they all keep in touch to give our current students excellent role models.

Stanthorpe born Matthew Manahan is about to star in the brand new Australian production of the musical “Hair”, and Sophie Maddock is currently employed with the Melbourne City Ballet company, and recently toured nationally with the Melbourne City Ballet’s production of “Alice in Wonderland”. (https://www.ritzdance.com/star-graduates). Sarah Green qualified with jazz and tap CSTD Teacher’s Certificates in Stanthorpe, and now teaches in our Brisbane studio while she is in her final year of Dance at University at QUT.

So far, we have trained 9 locals through to Teachers levels in Jazz, Tap, Musical Theatre & Drama and some of those Teachers already have multiple qualifications under their belt.

The Ritz Stanthorpe offer classes in dance as well as acrobatics, singing, drama, music and musical theatre.

We compete in only the highest level of competitions available to us in Queensland and offer exams in all areas which are recognised by Education Queensland. We also serve as agent for our students for film, TV and professional stage productions and auditions for same.

We also recognise that not everybody learning dance and performance arts wants to enter the entertainment industry, and we welcome students who choose not to participate in exams. Dance is certainly a fantastic form of exercise and discipline, and the confidence and poise learned through all of the performing arts makes Ritz classes wonderful training for all, carrying over many benefits into all areas of students’ lives.

At The Ritz, we are very proud of the inclusive culture of our studios. We nurture independence in our students and foster an environment where older students support and guide younger students, which all the kids learn so much from, and form beautiful relationships through.

Class sizes are kept small to ensure individual attention to each student, and we provide the opportunity for all of our students to perform if they would like to and when they are ready to. We are not about choosing a performance team to win every competition entered, but about providing opportunities for all of our students to get up on stage and learn and grow from the experience, challenging themselves to constantly improve based on their individual skill levels, their prior achievements, and their own pace in learning. Rather than choosing children for choreography and performance material, at The Ritz it is the other way around, we choose choreography and performance material to meet the needs of the children, the level each class is working at, while providing new challenges as the children are ready.

At The Ritz, it is about learning and growth over time… we see learning as a long-term project, with students facilitated, through our industry experience and contacts, and supported, through individualised care, to follow their own pathways.

We are not in the business of producing 11yr old “professionals”. Our hope is to prepare our long-term students for the option of continuing into their adult life as a performer, a teacher or simply as a valued member of society through life-skills learnt along their journey in Performing Arts.

Get in touch if you would like find out more about what The Ritz Performing Arts Centre Stanthorpe has to offer. We’d love to hear from you!

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