Why Private Coaching?
- Personalised Attention
- Help setting realistic goals
- Tailored training
- A relationship built on trust
- Accountability
- Celebrate yours wins and learn from your losses together.
Meet Tamara
Tamara began her dance training at the Dianne McLellan Dance Academy at the age of five. She then trained at the Anne Fraser School of Dance before being accepted into Queensland Ballet’s Professional Year program in 2006. While a PY student Tamara was awarded both the Patricia MacDonald Scholarship and the George Hartnett Funerals Award. She became a Trainee Dancer with the Company in 2008 and Company Dancer in January 2009.
Repertoire highlights include, Mary in Greg Horsman's Coppelia, Tinkerbell in Trey McIntyre's Peter Pan, Effie in Peter Schaufuss' La Sylphide, Song, the Yellow Fairy in Greg Horsman's The Sleeping Beauty, Ma Cong's Ersther Vals, Violente in Francois Klaus’s The Sleeping Beauty, Cygnet in Ben Stevenson’s Swan Lake, Pas de Trios in Ben Stevenson’s Swan Lake, Victoire and Emilie in Liam Scarlett’s Dangerous Liaisons, Harlot in Sir Kenneth Macmillan’s Romeo and Juliet, Peaseblossem in Liam Scarlett’s A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Winter and Autumn Fairies in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella.
Retiring in 2019, Tamara spend 4 years as the Digital Content Coordinator at Queensland Ballet, which included capturing and creating video and photography content and managing social media channels.
After taking a break to have her little boy Harvey in 2022 Tamara is excited to have returned to the studio and found her love in coaching.Creating Sharing The elevated Dancer, a boutique ballet studio focusing on private and online ballet coaching it brings her enormous joy to share her knowledge, experience and passion with the next generation of dancers. Helping them grow not only technically but with a real focus on artistry and mindset too.