Jenni is Director of Smart Health Training and Services, a private allied health / medical centre which works strongly on the philosophy for a collaborative care model. Here, she runs the Smart Dancer program and Polestar Pilates Instructor Education. Jenni has combined her formative years as a Classical Ballet Student/Amateur performer with her academic years of pre and postgraduate Physiotherapy study resulting in a passionate focus on Dance Injury / Education and Prevention. As a long-standing member of The International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, Jenni remains up to date with the current research in Dance Medicine, treatment and preventative methodology.

Born in Perth, Judy Swan (B.Ed., Grad Dip Arts Management, Masters of Management: Arts and Cultural Management, ARAD, Associate ISTD), has had extensive training and professional performance experience in classical ballet, contemporary dance and jazz dance technique, including training at the Laban Centre, London.  She has recently completed her Masters of Arts and Cultural Management, and her teaching experience extends across primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education, having also taught for a number of private dance studios.  She has initiated a number of programs on a state level that have promoted Dance in education and has mentored pre-service teachers and teachers new to Dance.  Judy has contributed to Dance curriculum development for many years through a range of roles with the SACE Board.  Her current full-time job is teaching Dance and managing the ‘GifT Dance program’ at Mitcham Girls High School. 

Committed to educating the ‘whole’ dancer, Judy enjoys sharing her lifelong passion for dance. She sees her role with Ausdance SA as an exciting opportunity to continue to contribute to the various dance sectors in South Australia.  If you see Judy, and you haven’t seen her for a while, she would rather you not ask, ‘Are you STILL teaching Dance?’

Lana Adamuszek is a performer, actor, choreographer and teacher of dance and acting. Lana is also experienced in the acting/performance industry as an agent and performing arts school co-ordinator. She is C.S.T.D trained in multiple dance genres, training and performing from four years of age. Since graduating in 2007 from The Adelaide College of the Arts with an Advanced Diploma in Acting, Lana has consistently been acting and directing in many stage productions and musicals in Adelaide. She has taken a break from performing and teaching since the birth of her first child in 2018 and decided to take part on the Ausdance SA board as a new challenge during her spare time to keep in touch with the dance world. 

Rebecca has completed a number of professional development courses, training and tertiary studies in dance and fitness including the Ausdance Skill Set for Teaching Dance, The Groove Method facilitator trainings, Bokwa Fitness, C.S.T.D examinations in Jazz, Tap, Ballet and Hip Hop and a Master of Teaching (Secondary) specialising in Drama and English at the University of South Australia.

Rebecca has been dancing for more than 30 years and began teaching dance at the age of 17. She has trained primarily with Jazz Company @ Fancy Foot Dance, The Dancers Studio and Flava Dance Studios in a wide variety of styles including jazz, funk, hip hop, contemporary, cabaret and musical theatre.

Rebecca has taught children as young as 2 years to mature adults in a variety of styles. She has worked in dance studios (The Dancer’s Studio, MTM Cheerleading, Hip Hop Bounce – Port Pirie) and in Middle / Secondary and Primary schools throughout South Australia as a freelance dance coach with Ausdance SA and her own company, Essential Arts. Rebecca previously worked with the Australian Sports Commission’s Active After Schools Community Program and with Netball SA teaching dance fitness sessions and performing and choreographing with the ANZ Net Set Go Dance program.

Rebecca is an educator and innovator in dance. She enjoys presenting workshops for teachers at educational conferences (ACHPER and The Australian Dance Festival) and offering professional development workshops in dance for school teachers.

Since 2018, Rebecca has worked as a school teacher in a middle and secondary setting with students from years 5-12. The is where Rebecca’s passion for entrepreneurship, innovative technology and creating pathways for cross-disciplinary teaching with the Arts flourished. Rebecca is committed to working with young people and helping students ‘think like artists’ by immersing themselves in the collaborative and creative processes of theatre-making. She encourages students to take risks and imagine new ways of entertaining and educating audiences through the arts.

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination…Imagination encircles the world” – Albert Einstein.