KiX Dance Studio

🌟 Amanda Black 🌟

I believe in the importance of our ATOD students having an affirming exam experience, as it prepares them to build future life skills outside of the studio.

In facilitating a positive exam environment, I provide a comfortable space for students to achieve their best, display their knowledge and ability, and convey their love of dance.

I also work to be a positive influence and mentor to all teachers, supporting them to confidently teach their students by building their understanding of the various genres that ATOD has to offer.

Outside of the studio, I have thoroughly enjoyed being able to incorporate my passion for travel as part of my work and experiencing so many new places while examining.

I look forward to continue meeting more ATOD teachers and members everywhere—it’s wonderful to see such a strong passion for dance fostered all over the world!

⬆️ Am sure the ATOD Members & Teachers are equally thrilled to meet you Mandie!

• Share your respect & gratitude for the brilliant Mrs Black. Your dance journey may have crossed paths with her already, or she may be potentially your examiner in the lovely future 💫

• Across the next months we’ll be sharing profiles with you of the highly dedicated ATOD Examiners. You’ll get to celebrate an Examiner every couple of days 💫

It doesn’t matter how many times I’m in those wings I still have butterflies for my students.

And I also could not be more proud no matter the outcome.

♥️

That nervous, excited feeling just before you take the floor...

Come Dance With Us at VDF24 this April.
Melbourne Showgrounds

🎟️ www.VDF.com.au

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We hope you’ve all loved being back in the studio and gifting your students with this absolute joy ✨

Dance exams are key to a child’s success ⭐️

Ballet muscle memory is a marvellous thing, don't you think?

You may have lost most of your flexibility (I can only dream of splits), strength and stamina, but deep down your brain and body still know how to do all the things.

Just as I know my ABCs, my muscles remember arabesques, battus and croisée. Probably forever, even if I were dancing only in my dreams.

Still signed up for that first comeback ballet class though (in September). It's now been 40 months since I last jetée-d across the floor. Crazy, I know.