Meet the team
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Rebekah Chippington
Founder and Artistic Creative Director, Rebekah has 20 plus years experience in dance training and teaching. She originally trained as a classical ballerina, and when she left she moved into the art forms of salsa and contemporary dance. After having children, Rebecca found the call to connect to her femininity and began a journey into embodied healing and erotic dance. Rebekah first began teaching the art of dance to children in the Bellingen community in 2021. and launched the adult program in 2023. Whether teaching children or adults, Becky’s vision is to teach dance in a inclusive, spirited and connected method.
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Franko Franki
Co-founder and Artistic collaborator Franki has a central approach to movement – that movement is the progenitor to art, creativity and to life itself. Franki believes that we train our mind by training our bodies. He teaches with the philosophy that within us all is an artist - a competent and creative person, and to release that person we must train the body to let go. Even to lift a brush, we must learn about posture, position, and composition of our bodies. With a background in fine arts, sculpture, product design and teaching Franki merges his passion for all things creative with his other love, ‘Joga bonito’- soccer, enmeshing them altogether in a seemingly disparate but altogether creative ensemble of movement and art.
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Sunday Lucia
Sunday began her dance training in Bellingen. She went on to being accepted into the Queensland Dance School of Excellence and completed her Bachelor of Arts Dance at Queensland University of Technology. After a short stint performing in a Contemporary Dance Company in Singapore and Taiwan Sunday made her Australian debut on stage with Expressions dance company in Maggi Sietsma's production of Virtually Richard III. Sunday has since gone onto perform as an Independent Artist co-choreographing and performing in Cabaret & Burlesque shows throughout Brisbane & Sydney. Career highlights include Graeme Murphys AIDA, Penny Mullens’s Firebird & most recently being invited to perform in the Noosa Long Weekend Festival.
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Alishia Wallekers
Alisha Wallekers is a passionate performer and pole dance instructor. Dance and movement medicine is her absolute passion and life purpose. She has founded the performance agency Filthy Alien Entertainment which are a tribe of travelling aerialists, pole dancers, fire & LED flow performers. Alisha’s aims is to teach strong, sensual movement and allow students to gain confidence, physical strength and flow through movement and dance. Her priority is ensuring a safe and sexy environment for all to move and express themselves freely.
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OWEN Gilliland
To Owen, dance is more than just a collection of movements, but rather a way of deepening our connection to ourselves and others. After Owen caught ‘the dance bug’ in 2015, it became a passion to grow his knowledge, and now as a teacher, witnessing students undergo this same transformation is a driving force behind his practise. Owens classes are energising, grounded and foster a true sense of community. While science has proven that dance is great for our physical and mental health, Owen is connected to how we embody this change. Owen’s teaching scope covers Cuban Salsa, Kizomba and Dominican Bachata.
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Catriona Davies
Catriona has been HOOKED on Contact Improvisation since 2006, dancing, training and performing with wonderful teachers and dancers in Australia, Europe and the USA. In 2015, Catriona and her partner Benn established the Bello Contact Improv community, offering classes, jams and workshops. Contact Improvisation is the one steady, dependably enriching lifelong practice that quickly gets Catriona into a state of embodied play and creativity, a truly necessary life skill and resource in these times. Out side of teaching Catriona is a performance artist, homeschooling mother and homesteader.
