The Training Ground provides dancers within the ACT and surrounding areas with access to high-calibre dance training in a range of styles. With a strong focus on developing the pre-professional dancer, we provide a wide range of weekly dance classes and programs as well as unique performance opportunities.

Our programs allow dancers to immerse themselves in developing and extending their technical and performance skills. With our accredited and highly experienced staff, students will be challenged, inspired and supported to achieve their full potential.

The Training Ground is a multi-faceted training studio with the common goal of up-skilling dancers to an elite level in a supportive and professional environment. We offer classes in a range of dance genres, technical skill training programs, strength and flexibility programs, and Royal Academy of Dance examinations. For those students interested in competing or extending their performance skills, we also run full-scale performance programs.

The Training Ground also facilitates its own innovative, award-winning, community-based contemporary dance project each year for dancers in the ACT and surrounding areas. These projects have provided dancers with a ‘dance company’-like experience and have seen participating dancers be accepted into tertiary and pre-professional dance courses, such as Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year, New Zealand School of Dance, Flinders University, Victorian College of Arts (Melbourne University), Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Edith Cowan University) and DART Dance Student Program (Berlin).

Bonnie Neate (BA (Dance)/B.Ed (Secondary)) Acrobatic Arts Certified.
Suzy Piani (BSc, Grad. Dip.Ed (Secondary), Grad. Cert Dance Ed.) Acrobatic Arts Certified.