Faculty
Lucy McLachlan
Studio Director
Lucy is the founder and owner of The Studio Kiama. Immersed in the dance world for 20+ years, Lucy has over a decade of experience as a teacher and studio manager. Lucy completed her full time ballet training with Classé Ballet Academy in 2012, studying under Susan Wuele, Azure Dixon and Garth Welch, former principal with the Australian Ballet. Lucy continued teaching throughout university and her corporate career. She then moved to the business management space, and opened her own consultancy working with small, creative businesses, including studios.
In opening The Studio we hope to bring together a collective of dancers, artists and instructors to create a diverse, functional and creative space.
Lucy's loves bringing the joy of dance to her classes and teaches with a balance between the technical and the creative.
Bachelor of Arts, Science & Economics | USYD, Cert. Business Management | IAOBM, Cert. Public Engagement | IAP2, R.A.D Adv 2, Working With Children Check WWC0655558E
ARAD
Azure Dixon
Artistic Director
Principal of Classé Ballet Academy in the Blue Mountains and Artistic Director at The Studio Kiama, Azure has been dancing for over 30 years and teaching for over a decade.
Azure is a Registered Teacher and Registered Mentor of R.A.D Ballet. She has students training in highly acclaimed full time and company schools, in Australia and overseas, such as the English National Ballet School, Queensland Ballet Academy, The Australian Ballet School, the National College of Dance and Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy.
Azure began her training in the Blue Mountains, studying under Susan Weule. She also trained Full Time at Tayna Pearson Classical Coaching and Brent Street Studios before continuing her training abroad at Central School of Ballet London. She then continued to the USA. One of her favourite roles was performing as a Snow Flake in Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s production of The Nutcracker.
Azure currently loves coaching and choreographing for the next generation of dancers.
R.A.D Registered Teacher, R.A.D Cert. Ballet Teaching Studies, R.A.D Registered Mentor, WWC1728872E
RAD RTS, RAD CBTS, RAD Registered Mentor
Kell Silver
Head Dance Teacher
Kell is a commercially focused dance teacher and a prolific choreographer, with over a decade teaching experience in dance studios and public schools along the south coast. Kell is constantly creating and choreographing to ensure his classes are fresh, fun, confidence building and creatively challenging. .
Kell trained with the NSW Aboriginal Public Schools Dance Company, studying under Bangarra Dance Theatre and performing Bangarra repertoire. Kell has performed at the Netball World Cup, the Swans Pride Game, the State Dance Festival and the Bangarra Dance Theatre 20-year celebration.
Kell is a working dancer in the industry, always striving to expand his dance knowledge and bring this back into the studio for his students.
First Aid, WWC1857145E
Tayla Watson
Head Yoga Teacher
Tayla first found yoga during her Speech Pathology degree in 2012.
Tayla has taught and shared yoga and meditation in gyms and yoga studios throughout the Illawarra, India, the UK and Indonesia. Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga, Yoga for children and meditation are her favourite classes to teach. Tayla aims to give students at least one tool to help make challenging circumstances in their life a little easier and change the way we interact in our forever busy world.
Tayla’s classes capture essences of asana (the postures we make with our physical bodies), pranayama (control of the breath) & stillness. Tayla’s classes are a mix of traditional and modern elements as she loves to offer fluidity, newness and a creative flare to vinyasa flows. Tayla’s classes are suitable to EVERYONE, all bodies, all ages, all genders and all levels of practice.
Bachelor of Speech Pathology, 200hr Yoga Teacher Training | Yoga Mystica & Mahi Yoga India, 50hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training | Truth Robinson, 50hr Medititation Teacher Training | Mark Breadner Bali, Cacao Ceremonialist Apprenticeship | Anchoring The Light: Sacred Chocolate Facilitator