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Welcome to Broadway Bound!

Broadway Bound Performing Arts studio is a unique studio with the sole purpose of training youth in all aspects of musical theatre and dance.

We are all extremely passionate about the performing arts. We believe that the skills developed through performing help students to acheive personal goals, team work and confidence.

We are proud to offer small class sizes, affordable classes and a family atmosphere.

TEACHERS

We are proud to have the some of the most experienced musical theatre and dance instructors in the Lower Mainland. All of our teachers have extensive backgrounds in musical theatre and all dance disciplines through training and/or through performing on stage.

KIMBERLY PAGE
Owner, Junior & Senior Production Director and Musical Director, Voice Instructor
Kim has directed over a dozen musicals with children, including Sweeney Todd,Thoroughly Modern Millie, West Side Story, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Annie, Oklahoma, Guys & Dolls and Beauty And The Beast. She has taught voice, musical theatre and acting for many schools in the lower mainland area. Kim is a graduate in theatre from Douglas College and has been singing for over 25 years. Kim continues to be on the stage as well, performing with local theatre companies (Theatre Under The Stars, Uncle Randy Productions, Gateway Theatre and Royal City Musical Theatre), most recently starring in Annie Get Your Gun with TUTS at Stanley Park's Malkin Bowl. But her greatest joy comes from teaching children.

DANIELLE BENTON - Junior & Senior Musical Theatre Production, Jazz & Ballet

Danielle is a professional dancer, singer & actress who has performed on stages across Canada. She performed the roles of Diana Barry & Ruby Gillis in Anne of Green Gables at the Charlottetown Festival on Prince Edward Island for three seasons. You may have recently seen Danielle as a ‘Silly Girl’ in Beauty and the Beast for The Arts Club Theatre or dancing in Eugine Onegin for the Vancouver Opera. Danielle has been dancing for 21 years (Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop & Partnering) and has trained at The Dance Centre & Metro Movement in Toronto, Broadway Dance Centre in New York and Harbour Dance in Vancouver. She also has extensive training in acting for the camera and has appeared in many film & television roles, commercials and was a principal dancer in ABC’s The Music Man, starring Mathew Broderick & Kristin Chenoweth. We are thrilled that Danielle will be choreographing our musicals this year!

AURA BENWICK - Hip Hop, Jazz Technique, Lyrical Jazz & Musical Theatre

Auras passion for dancing and the performing arts has taken her many places throughout her life. She has traveled around the world most recently in Singapore where she was one of the Gotham Divas, an in house dance group of the Gotham Penthouse nightclub. She also toured in Asia with the Las Vegas Showgirls, she danced on cruise ships as a company member for Carnival Cruise Lines as well as Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and for seven seasons Aura is the new choreographer for and has been a member and a captain of the B.C. Lions Felions Dance Team as well as one of the Vancouver Raven Fly Girls for there three seasons in Vancouver. As a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts she has worked extensively in theatre. In her younger years she traveled throughout Australia touring the musical Minor Reality, but more recently you can see Aura in film and television dancing in music videos and commercials. You can also see her performing in local shows such as Lost Vegas Live, and The Girly Show 3 as well as dancing at local casinos doing Can Can and Las Vegas style shows. Aura’s passionate personality drives her to meet new people and learn about new cultures and different ways of life. Her love for dancing goes hand in hand with her love of performing.

ALEXIS WHATLEY - Jazz, Tap & Contemporary

Alexis’ passion for dancing and the performing arts has taken her many places throughout her life as an instructor, performer, choreographer and adjudicator. She began training in her native Edmonton as well as in Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles and New York. She has performed as a dancer with such companies as Princess Cruise Lines, Legends Alive, Champagne Showgirls, The CFL BC Lions Dance Team, and various other live stage shows. Her choreography can be seen in performances throughout Vancouver, most recently at the Miss BC World 2009 and Top Teen of Canada 2009 pageants. Alexis currently resides in Vancouver where she is recognized as an energetic and humorous instructor and choreographer, sharing her experience and passion with dancers of all ages.

ANA ROCHE - Musical Theatre

Ana has been dancing ever since she was little and is thrilled to be given the opportunity to share her love for dance and musical theatre with children. Ana has studied in jazz, tap, ballet and musical theatre. She has performed in musicals such as Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story, Thoroughly Modern Millie and, most recently, The Pajama Game. Ana has been assisting with the Junior Production class for many years now and enjoys every moment of it. She is currently attending Douglas College pursuing a degree in Education. Ana hopes to always continue teaching musical theatre, as it has constantly been a major part of her life.

KRISTINA LINDEN - Tap
Kristina is an accomplished dancer who has been immersed in the dance world since the age of four. She was seen in the Metro Theatre’s production of Anything Goes; she was also seen tapping her feet in Royal City Musical Theatre’s 2007 production of 42^nd Street. She is an original member of Beat Feet Divaz, Vancouver's only all female tap and hip-hop fusion dance company. Kristina was a co-recipient of the West Coast Tap Dance Collective’s annual scholarship in 2007, and has been a performer at many notable events including the LA Tap Festival’s 2008 and 2009 All-Star Tap Concerts, the Vancouver Tap Festival’s “Tap Passages,” numerous Vancouver International Tap Day Celebrations, Vancouver's PNE Star Discovery, and “For the Luv of It.” In 2005, she was a member of the Canadian National Tap Team which received a silver medal at the World Tap Dance Championships in Riesa, Germany; she was also a finalist in the duet category. Kristina has studied with and been heavily influenced by many tap artists such as: Dr. Jimmy Slyde, Arthur Duncan, Dr. Jeni LeGon, Dr. Harold Cromer, Diane Walker, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Jason Samuels Smith, Chloe Arnold, Ivery Wheeler, Ted Levy, Michelle Dorrance, Brenda Buffalino, Heather Cornell, and Chester Whitmore. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, she attended the Los Angeles Tap Festival at Debbie Allen's Dance Academy where she was lucky enough to receive a week long internship! Kristina has also trained at the Millennium Dance Complex and the Edge Performing Arts Centre in L.A., and at Broadway Dance Center in New York.

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