Clancy Mc Waters

We welcome Miss Clancy Mc Waters to ITDE in 2012.
Since the age of 4 Clancy has sung and danced in countless concerts, dance competitions and eisteddfods as well as performed in pantomime in England.

She is trained extensively in ballet, jazz, tap & hip hop from various dance and performance academies for the last 15 years. While at Kellyville High School she assisted teachers in training younger students & has choreographed routines for inter-school dance competitions. Clancy has been teaching Hip Hop and Jazz in the hills area over the past few years.

Clancy currently attends the Australian College of Theatre & Television and is in her 3rd year. She is completing her advanced diploma.

Principal- Ms Damaris

Damaris began dancing at the age of four. She studied various forms of dance including Jazz, Tap, Contemporary and Hip hop but favoured ballet, completing each of her Royal Academy of Dance Ballet exams with honours.

Damaris studied with Capital Performance Studios for ten years where she competed in Sydney eisteddfods reaching the finals at the Sydney Opera House every year. Damaris was in the dance company with her high school Newtown performing arts and on completion of her High School Certificate, Damaris attended ED5 Performing Arts and completed the full time performance arts course in 2002.

During this time Damaris worked with some of Australia’s leading choreographers. She also studied all forms of dance as well as singing, acting and Pilate’s. On graduation Damaris worked professionally, dancing in numerous stage shows and cabaret, also being involved in the Olympic ceremony, the today show, Diesel fashion shows, Home and away, back up dancer, Movies and much more!


Damaris has a love of dance but has found her true passion is in teaching and choreographing. She has been teaching for 11 years. Her experience and manner will provide her students with a wonderful insight into the world of dance and beyond.

Miss Julie

Julie has been trained in dance for over 13 years, participating in various genres including Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Tap, Hip Hop, Swing and some cultural dances.
She did her ballet exams under B.A.L syllabus completed up to Grade 5 with Honours.
Her choreography experiences include a "STOMP" routine for 30 students, both male and female, aged 10-12, various school performances and assessments and has choreographed lyrical dances for Graduation Ceremonies for students at St Andrew's Primary School, Marayong, over the past 4 years.
She completed dance as a subject in the Higher School Certificate, receiving a Band 6 as an overall mark involving theory, performance, and composition. Majored in Composition, in which she was required to choreograph a 4-6 minute, abstract piece that expressed a deeper intent and purpose. My work, titled "Communication", was highly successful with a nomination for Callback Performances, where the exemplary efforts from Year 12 Dance students of 2010 are recognized.
Julie has sufficient levels of fitness and knowledge of Safe Dance Practices, including immediate injury management and also preventative actions.
The knowledge of the process of choreographing a dance she highly enjoys and especially seeing the end result.
She is a motivated and enthusiastic teacher and will be a fantastic asset to ITDE

Miss Alex King

Alex has have been dancing for 7 years, since the age of 8 years and since then, she has never looked back.
The styles of dance she has studied are Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary, Ballet, And Performance group (Troup).
She has performed at events and competed in many Eisteddfods in Solo dances and Groups, receiving many awards and trophies.

She has also been my Assistant teacher for the past 4 years with the younger classes, and teaches in the most professional manner and the students adore her.
When she finishes year 10, her plan is to audition for Newtown performing arts high school.

After completing her senior years at Newtown she will hopefully successfully audition for a performing arts full-time course.

Her dream is to become famous and be a well-known dancer/choreographer and travel the world to dance in theatre and movies.

When she is older she would love to be the principle of her own dance school.

Quote from Alex- ‘Dancing has amazed me more than anything else has. It’s not just a place where you go to learn to dance, because you learn so much more than that. But what you learn depends on how determined and committed you are to what you do. For me, dance has opened up so many opportunities for the future ahead. My future is defiantly set’