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Eloise Harpas is a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher from Sydney. She trained at Ettingshausens in the Sutherland Shire.  At 15 years of age, after landing a job working on the tour of Young Talent Time, Eloise realised that she wanted to make a career of it. Local work continued to come her way with opportunities such as X Factor throughout the time when she completed her full time training at Ettingshausens.
 During that time, her potential was recognised by icons of the dance world including Kelley Abbey and she was awarded a 3 month scholarship to train at Broadway Dance Centre. Whilst there Eloise became the first Australian to ever receive their Outstanding Student Award in the 3 month course. This ignited a passion in Eloise who became determined to move to LA to follow her dreams. 
Already in her young career, she has danced with artists such as Sam Smith and Katy Perry. Now she is living in LA, signed to an agent and working at awards shows such as the Grammys. 

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Eloise Harpas is a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher from Sydney. She trained at Ettingshausen's in the Sutherland Shire. At 15 years of age, after landing a job working on the tour of Young Talent Time, Eloise realised that she wanted to make a career of it.
 Already in her young career, she has danced with artists such as Sam Smith and Katy Perry. Now she is living in LA, signed to an agent and working at awards shows such as the Grammys.
Join Charlie as she asks the hard questions in this performer profile.
Find out all the things you have always wanted to know about your favourite performers, but never had the chance to ask.

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Faith Ward is a 19 year old dancer, model, acrobat and content creator from Perth Australia. Faith first started dancing at the age of 2, heading into her mother’s dance studio. Faith grew up in New Zealand before her family moved to Perth when she was 11 years old. From then she attended Smash dance studio and trained in all styles of dance. 
She had a very successful time competing in dance competitions. In 2017 she won Hollywood Dance run by KAR and was awarded a paid trip to America. In 2017 and 2018 she was names Australian Ultimate Teen Dancer. In 2018 when competing in America she managed to receive Overall Teen Dancer in Florida and 2nd Runner up Teen Dancer in LA. 
Faith is now making a living from creating social media content for her thousands of followers of her Instagram account Flexi Faith. 

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Faith Ward is a 19 year old dancer, model, acrobat and content creator from Perth Australia. 
 In 2017 she won Hollywood Dance run by KAR and was awarded a paid trip to America. In 2017 and 2018 she was names Australian Ultimate Teen Dancer. In 2018 when competing in America she managed to receive Overall Teen Dancer in Florida and 2nd Runner up Teen Dancer in LA. 
Faith is now making a living from creating social media content for her thousands of followers of her Instagram account Flexi Faith.

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Find out all the things you have always wanted to know about your favourite performers, but never had the chance to ask.

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Amy Campbell is one of Australia’s most accomplished creative talents with a career spanning all areas of the entertainment industry. Amy has performed domestically and internationally, dancing alongside Kylie Minogue, Flo Rida, Redfoo, Tina Arena, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Sam Sparrow.

She also appeared on television including; placing in the Top 3 on So You Think You Can Dance Australia Season 2, as well as appearing on The X Factor, The Nickelodeon Awards, TV Week Logie Awards, Australia’s Next Top Model and  Australia’s Got Talent.

Amy’s stage credits include; having appeared in the Australian tour of Dirty Dancing, Fame The Musical, Saturday Night Fever, Xanadu, the world premiere of King Kong Live on Stage and as a principal dancer in Opera Australia’s Carmen.

Her list of choreographic credits include; In The Heights, HAIR , Funny Girl, Guilty Pleasures and Oklahoma. She was Resident Choreographer on The Bodyguard Musical Australia and Resident Director on Hamilton Australia.

Amy recently created and directed the world premiere of LEAP. She also made her directorial debut originating a brand new Australian production of A Chorus Line and most recently Amy has  been working on Velvet Rewired in Australia and Germany. 
https://missamycampbell.com/

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Amy Campbell is one of Australia’s most accomplished creative talents with a career spanning all areas of the entertainment industry. Amy has performed domestically and internationally, dancing alongside Kylie Minogue, Flo Rida, Redfoo, Tina Arena, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Sam Sparrow.
Amy recently created and directed the world premiere of LEAP. She also made her directorial debut originating a brand new Australian production of A Chorus Line and most recently Amy has  been working on Velvet Rewired in Australia and Germany. 

Join Charlie as she asks the hard questions in this performer profile.
Find out all the things you have always wanted to know about your favourite performers, but never had the chance to ask.
https://missamycampbell.com/

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After three epic seasons of Dance Matters Podcast we are back for Season 4. Join us for a preview of what you can expect to hear throughout the year.
In this preview we reveal our first guest for Season Four.
Thank you to Crystalized Costumes:
https://www.instagram.com/crystalizedcostumes/?hl=en
And
Adrenaline Dance Competitions
https://www.adrenalinedancecomp.com.au/
For coming onboard as sponsors for Season 4

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Allie Goodbun is a young Canadian dancer who is lighting up the stage nightly in Paris at the Moulin Rouge. It wasn’t all smooth sailing for this journey from Canada to Paris. Despite successfully auditioning in 2019, the world had other ideas. 
When the Moulin Rouge was closed down due to the pandemic, Allie had to bide her time and keep up her training. Not one to sit idly by Allie used this time to keep herself fit by launching an online Fitness program- Flex by Allie Goodbun. Allie’s passion enabled her to grow her business throughout covid-19 until it became a fitness community. 
Finally as the world started to reopen, Allie was give the call up to head to Paris and take her place on the stage. In this episode we talk all things Moulin Rouge; from training and costumes to performing nightly for sell out audiences. 
Make sure you check out Allie’s first interview with us in episode 36 to learn all about her training growing up and her time on The Next Step. 

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Allie Goodbun is a young Canadian dancer who is lighting up the stage nightly in Paris at the Moulin Rouge.
In this episode we talk all things Moulin Rouge; from training and costumes to performing nightly for sell out audiences. 
Make sure you check out Allie’s first interview with us in episode 36 to learn all about her training growing up and her time on The Next Step. 
Join Charlie as she asks the hard questions in this performer profile.
Find out all the things you have always wanted to know about your favourite performers, but never had the chance to ask.

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Rhonda Malkin started ballet when she was 4, tap when she was 6 and then joined in the jazz class at 8. By ten she was in the performing troupes at her studio. 

While attending UCLA as a sociology major, Rhonda performed as a Los Angeles Laker Girl for three years and received a championship ring for the 2000 inaugural season at Staples Center with the Lakers. She was a Radio City Music Hall Rockette for 12 years and a Rockette Swing (memorizing all 36 Rockette dance tracks) for seven of those years.

Some of Rhonda's other credits include: "The Producers: The Movie Musical", “The Academy Awards, The “MTV VMA's”, “MTV Movie Awards, the film "Beautiful" with Minnie Driver; national commercials for Sears, Macy's, CBS, “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” and Westfield Shopping Towns; multiple live stage shows for Disney's El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood and Hyperion Theatre at Disney's California Adventure Park and a special performance in the East Wing at the White House for President Obama and the First Lady.

After 25 years of dancing professionally Rhonda made the move into personal training and dance coaching. Since then she has had 59 dancers become Rockettes (most of any dance coach in history), and many others who are currently working on Broadway, national tours, music videos, TV shows, cruise ships, NBA and NFL professional dance teams, regional theater/summer stock productions, Disney, theme parks, and Cirque du Soleil, to name a few.

You can find out more about Rhonda’s dance coaching at https://www.fusionexercise.com/