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Welcome!
We are a Heart Centred Arts School, who value being a special part of our beautiful Bridgetown community. We prioritise quality dance training in a non-competitive and nurturing environment.
After a truly wonderful first year of operation in 2025, Bridgetown School of Performing Arts (BSPA) has proudly grown into a welcoming and supportive community for dancers of all ages and abilities. We teach Teeny Toes toddlers all the way through to Adult Ballet. Our ethos is rooted in kindness, mastery and encouragement, ensuring each student feels welcomed, supported to be apart of our school and inspired by a love of dance.
Our teachers passionately believe in providing high-quality dance training, particularly in a rural community, within a warm and nurturing environment, where dancers are supported to develop sound dance technique while building confidence, resilience and an inspired love for the arts. At BSPA, we encourage all of our dancers to apply themselves to each of their classes, explore and challenge their potential and pursue their passion in a positive, committed, yet non-competitive setting. Above all, we prioritise emotional wellbeing, with the belief that personal growth, creativity, play and enjoyment are fundamental foundations for healthy development, both in and outside of a dance class.
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
- Martha Graham -
Our Story
Life certainly has a way of taking us on unexpected journeys, swings and roundabouts!
Established in 2025, by Emily, Bridgetown School of Performing Arts, was born from a chapter of new beginnings. With former professional training in classical ballet and the arts, a lifelong appreciation of dance and performance, paired with the courage to pursue a once-forgotten dream, BSPA was inspired by the opportunity to share skills and knowledge in a meaningful way. After a winding path, there came a defining personal intersection, where the opportunity to connect professional experience working with young people, with a former career in the arts, combined and BSPA was created!
While BSPA continues to grow and evolve, there remains a strong commitment from our teachers to ensure rural dancers have access to quality training opportunities that focus on development, mastery and support personal and class wellbeing. We are dedicated to passing down our knowledge, nurturing talent and personal perseverance, while fostering a supportive dance community where students benefit from caring, experienced teachers and gain a sense of professionalism within every class.
And so, Bridgetown School of Performing Arts was born and continues into 2026!
Meet Our Teachers
Meet Miss Emily..
'Safe Dance' Certified - Aus Dance
Diploma in Counselling
(Major in Childhood Development)
Yoga Teacher - 200 hr qualified
Hi Im Emily ..
West Australian-born, I was raised on a Wildflower farm, surrounded by the forest, in the Perth hills. I'm a qualified Counsellor with a major in Childhood Development and a focus on Play Therapy, with more than 15 years’ experience working with youth and families, and a decade of working in remote First Nations communities and regional towns.
Deeply grateful for the high quality ballet and dance training I received throughout my formative years, commencing my ballet journey at age three, with The Terri Charlesworth Ballet School (TCBS), under the direction of Kim Baker (Now, Kim Baker Ballet Academy) At fourteen I entered formally into TCBS's full time professional training program, Youth Ballet WA, where I studied the Vaganova method of Ballet, alongside Contemporary and Spanish Dance, performing consistently in a Can-Can company, while homeschooling to complete my education. Achieving successful offers into performing arts schools across the country via audition, I left Western Australia at aged 17, to study Musical Theatre and Dance professionally in Brisbane, at the Dividia Lind Dance Centre.
Over the years, my performing career has seen me working in a variety of stage shows, small companies, performances and alike, eventually leading me to pursue my love of songwriting which took me to the USA and furthermore stepping back out of the spotlight (my most comfortable space) and landing a management role for a First Nations Band, touring Western Australia, on multiple occasions. I have collaborated with well regarded musical professionals, producers, musicians, artists and alike and as an experiential learner, deeply value the opportunities I have gained and created through my commitment to my early ambitions in the world of arts.
After taking a detour from the arts, spending many years building my career in Youth Mental Health, Community and Social Services, with involvement in the NFP and ACCO sectors, I have returned full circle back to the South, igniting my love of the arts once more. I am beyond humbled to combine and share my knowledge and passion with our local dancers and arts community, here in our lovely Bridgetown.
I strongly believe in the healing qualities of stepping in through the magical window of the arts. Inspiring imagination, potential, possibility and play, while building personal resilience, determination and discipline, which carries through from class into our every day life. When we give arts a voice, it has the potential to plant seeds of change and inspire profound personal growth."
Hi, I'm Christine,
I began my dance journey at the age of 8, studying Classical Ballet and Character Dance with Josephine Spaull. Over the years, I trained rigorously under various teachers, focusing on the Cecchetti and Imperial dance methods until aged 17. As a teenager, I was introduced to Ballroom Dancing, Latin, New Vogue and English Old Time, where my ballet training became the foundation of a career ahead. Inspired to become a professional dance teacher, for over 25 years, I taught adults and children at Humphrey’s Dance Studio in the Hills division, guiding students through medals and competitions.
At the age of 38, I returned to my first love of Classical Ballet, enrolling in adult classes for personal enjoyment. My passion reignited quickly, leading me to teach at the Kim Baker Ballet Academy for 7 years, supporting young dancers to progress through examinations and pursue professional levels of ballet training.
In 2021, my move to Bridgetown with my husband, allowed me to continue my love for ballet through adult classes. Whenever I travel to Perth, I make it a point to return to my old ballet school to take an adult class for pure enjoyment.
"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breath. It is the rhythm of your life, the expression of emotions—happiness, joy, sadness, and envy." - Jacques d’Amboise, American ballet dancer and choreographer.
