Meet the Team
Meegan Strauss
Co - Founder and Director
Meegan started her training from the young age of 4 years old, starting with jazz, hiphop and modern. At 8 years old she began her ballet training in Wodonga, and it was during this time that Meegan discovered her love for dance and the desire to train full time at a vocational level. In the 3 years that Meegan has studied fulltime, she has completed her Victorian Certificate of Education, Certificate 2, 3 and 4 in Elite Performance while being acknowledged in many forums including as a finalist in the Red Carpet Youth Awards and numerous scholarships and accolades. In 2015 she toured to New Zealand with Projection Dance Company in the award winning production ‘Of Mice and Men’ and received an internship at Auckland Unitec in New Zealand. In 2016 Meegan was invited to audition for the world renowned Netherlands Dance Theatre in the Hague during which time she spent two months travelling Europe experiencing an eclectic mix of dance styles. Meegan is invested in dance across many levels, she has been instrumental in the development of inclusive dance classes and performances as well as demonstrating a keen interest in teaching dance and building her skills as a dance educator. In 2018 Meegan completed her Cert IV in Training and Assessment. In the past four years, Meegan has been teaching locally and been very inspired and motivated by the talent on the border. She has more recently been working closely with teams and students at local dance studios providing dance programs, preparing students for exams and performances and developing her passion for choreography. With a big passion for dance on the Border, and for providing fun, professional and quality dance training. Meegan is now set out on her own journey to build up her studio with Taylor, whilst studying her Certificate 4 In Dance Teaching and management to keep her knowledge and skills updated and continuing to learn more about her industry, She loves providing her students with great opportunities, As well as building on her passion for choreography.
Taylor Falkner
Co Founder and Director
Born in Albury, NSW, Taylor started her dance training at the young age of 3 years old. She became very versatile training and performing in ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, tap and musical theatre. In this time she studied the Royal Academy Of Dance syllabus and completed her ballet exams from grade 1 through to grade 7.
Taylor was very immersed in the dance culture throughout her schooling years, competing locally at competitions, performing in Disney land in 2009, And being a part of the Riverina Dance Ensemble performing at State Dance Festival and The School Specular for many years.
At the age of 14 she took training to a higher level and completed 3 years of fulltime dance training whilst obtaining her Victorian Certificate of Education in 2013. During this time, she received an Internship to Unitec BA Screen Arts in Auckland, New Zealand where she was able to experience an Incredible mix of Contemporary dance styles.
In 2012 she began performing with Projection Dance Company, performing many award-winning productions such as, ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘Seasons’ and ‘Paper Swans’. In 2015 Taylor toured works ‘Bitter Sweet’ and ‘Flux’ to Australia, Johannesburg South Africa and Amsterdam.
Taylors teaching career started off with just filling in for some classes back in 2013, and now in 2019 she sees it as something she is very passionate about.
Taylor now, at 25 years old finds a big love in creating fun and exciting choreography, and despite having a classically and contemporary trained background, she feels most inspired when creating in the more commercial styles, like jazz and hip-hop.
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Gabby Berry
Teacher
Gabby started her dance training at the age of 3 at Miss Parry’s School of Dance in Albury and instantly fell in love with Ballet. Throughout her years training Gabby has trained in many forms of dance including jazz, contemporary, tap, commercial, musical theatre but her true love has always been for classical ballet.
From 8 years old, Gabby began training in the Royal Academy of Dance Ballet syllabus and examined through each grade until Advanced 2, receiving distinctions in her exams.
Gabby studied dance through all of high school at James Fallon High School, in 2021 she finished year 12 receiving a high band score in her HSC and a Callback nomination for her choreography. Gabby was to be part of the Riverina Dance Ensemble for 7 years and the had the opportunity to audition for the NSW State School Dance Ensemble and was chosen to be part of a select ensemble to train with industry professionals in Sydney and opportunities to perform at various Festivals such as the School Spectacular. In 2019 Gabby successfully auditioned to be a featured dancer. Gabby beamed across the stage as the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz section. Being part of School Spectacular exposed Gabby to the choreography process of large-scale productions.
After receiving a scholarship to a Jason Coleman Ministry of Dance program, Gabby was invited to be a Part of the Jason Coleman MOD Star program where regional dancers were engaged in a program to expose them to styles not offered in regional areas. Gabby then enrolled for regular classes and travelled to Melbourne to attend weekend classes. At these classes she was noticed and offered a position in the Pre professional Development Program for exceptional dancers in 2020. Then covid hit, Victoria was locked down and she was locked out in NSW. This altered Gabby’s career in dance to another focus and steered her towards teaching.
Gabby began teaching with MT Dance Creative at the beginning of 2022 and loves being apart of the team! Her passion lies in teaching classical ballet and musical theatre and she has loved being able to create some magic with the MT Dance Creative students.