Abbey has been a student at the National College of Dance since she was 3 years old. Abbey joined the teaching team under the guidance of RAD Examiner and Associate Artistic Director Elise Frawley in 2018 as an Assistant Teacher and has passionately worked her way up teaching her own classes. With a wonderful versatility between Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz and Musical Theatre Abbey has trained in the RAD Syllabus from Pre-primary to Advanced 1, completing all examinations with high success. She has further represented NCD and had exemplary results in numerous group and solo dance eisteddfods including performing at the Sydney opera house for the city of Sydney Jazz finals.
As well as performing in various musicals across Newcastle including being selected as a featured dancer for the annual City of Newcastle Drama Awards. Abbey attended Hunter School of the Performing Arts in Broadmeadow where she completed Dance for her Higher School Certificate receiving call back nominations for all three areas including composition and performance. Additionally Abbey completed her Certificate 3 in Assistant Dance Teaching. Abbey has her Acrobatic Arts Module One Certification along with the ACRO Pre-School Dance Certification. Abbey has participated in the Department of Education’s Starstruck for the last 6 years being selected as featured dancer and recently as member of the Student Direction Team, choreographing a variety large arena routines.
She has also been selected in both regional and state dance ensembles for the last 6 consecutive years, where she has graced stages in both Newcastle and Sydney. Abbey is a part of the tutor development program at Hunter Drama, where she teaches Musical Theatre classes and has choreographed for their performance of Bring it On and various other onstage performances. She is very much looking forward to further consolidating her Dance teaching qualifications and expertise on her journey here at NCD. Abbey has a natural teaching ability, a wonderful connection with children and especially enjoys teaching our younger students. She has an abundance of performance skills, and she is looking forward to teaching and shaping our young performers and instilling a lifelong love of dance!