PRO PROGRAM

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CUA51520 Diploma of Professional Dance

100% DANCE PRO is a one year full time program for pre-professional dancers aged 17+ who aspire to be a part of the performing arts industry. Our training program takes a holistic approach to learning with a focus on each individual’s journey and strengths.

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WEEKLY CLASSES OF THE FOLLOWING:

  • Jazz
  • Hip hop
  • Contemporary
  • Ballet
  • Acro, Partnering & LIfts
  • Musical Theatre & Acting
  • Pilates & Barre
  • Dance Teacher Training
  • Industry Mentoring
  • Weekly Guest instructor [introducing students to styles outside the curriculum]

ARTIST PORTFOLIO

  • Headshots
  • Showreel Content
  • CV
  • Bio
  • Casting Platforms 

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Brand Strategy
  • Creative direction
  • Choreography
  • Goal Setting
  • Nutrition, Health & Anatomy
  • Networking
  • Financial planning
  • Injury prevention 
  • Professional performance opportunities
  • Mindfulness
  • 1 on 1 mentoring sessions with director Jess Innes. This will personalise & shape each dancer’s experience guiding them to a fulfilling and thriving career in the arts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025 TIMETABLE 

Our course runs Mon-Thurs 9am-3pm. By taking a 4 day approach to training we believe students can achieve balance in their study, home and work lives.

LEARN FROM THE BEST IN THE INDUSTRY

 

Jess Innes

Jess Innes

Founder & Director

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Jess is the founder and creative director of 100% DANCE studio in Sydney
which she opened in 2007 to share her love and knowledge of dance. 

Her expansive list of choreography and performance achievements include TV
work for NETFLIX “Motown Magic”, “The Morning Show”, ABC series “Hardball” and “Good Game” plus commercials for “Love Island”, The Kyle and Jacqui O show, KFC and Startrack Express.

Live entertainment opening for Iggy Azalea, performing at the Opera house with Junkyard Beats, NRL Bulldogs and Wests Tigers cheerleaders and Runway shows for Sass and Bide.

Corporate work for Lululemon, BONDS, Under Armour, Janssen, Crown Group and SES Australia.
Music videos for Gideon Benson, Krystie Steve, Olivia Foai, and Miss French.

Jess holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from UNSW majoring in Theatre and
Performance and completed a Certificate IV in Dance at ED5 International. She is also faculty at the esteemed Sydney Dance Company studios and frequently teaches workshops around Australia.

Corey Dohmen

Corey Dohmen

Instructor

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Corey is a creative and performing artist with over 2 decades of training, and experience under his belt whilst also teaching for over a decade. Corey started dancing at the age of 4 at Constant Groove Dance Studio, where he trained in many styles, including Hip Hop, Jazz and Contemporary. His performing, and unique style of choreography have earned him multiple National Championship titles over the years. He’s performed for singers including Anja Nissen, Jai Waetford and Jack Vidgen. Corey’s danced and choreographed routines for countless corporate functions, pop up shows, music videos, concept videos, and flashmobs.

Between 2019 and 2022, Corey was a Showtime cast member at Luna Park Sydney. He was also a member of the kids entertainment group JumpIn Kids, entertaining children through dance, singing and rapping. They reached their audience by touring NSW, ACT, and releasing a limited web series. He’s also a member of the professional thrash/contemporary/krump/break dance company The Blackguard, where he performed in their 2018 sophomore production, Still Breathing. He also taught acting for their training course “The Dark Room”. For over a decade, Corey has been teaching dance to children and adults of all ages across Sydney. Corey has held a number of his own open classes, where he’s had the honour of teaching current industry professionals. Along with teaching advanced level choreography, he also experimented with merging the lines between dancing and acting, guiding people in this space through his “Choreo + Storytelling”series.

No stranger to the dramatic arts, he started taking acting lessons when he was 9 years old. Straight out of high school, he went to sharpen his acting chops at Screenwise, attaining a Diploma of Screen Acting.

Corey credits include – appearing in a number of short films over the years, including the innovative, award nominated Revolutions. His commercial credits include Origin Energy, Mad Mex, Telstra, QANTAS, Fox Sports, Westpac, World Earth Day and Cricket Australia. 2022 was a successful year for Corey’s acting career, which started by performing at KXT in the world premiere of Undetermined Title. He then scored a guest role on the Stan Original Series Ten Pound Poms, and the upcoming feature film From All Sides. He finished that year performing at the Sydney Opera House as an actor in The Australian Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Musical theatre credits include productions of Hairspray, Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story, and Shrek the Musical with Packemin Productions, performing alongside the likes of Jon English, Wayne Scott Kermond, and Jay Laga’aia

Sarah Dimas

Sarah Dimas

Instructor

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Originally from Adelaide, Sarah moved to Sydney to study fulltime in the Contemporary Dance Stream at Brent Street Performing Arts in 2016 graduating with a Certificate IV in Dance. Throughout her life as a performer thus far she has performed in several productions in Australia and Europe. In 2017 she completed an apprenticeship with the Melbourne Ballet Company. In 2019 and 2021 Sarah performed in West Side Story the Musical playing Jet Girl ‘Clarice’ and Onstage Swing for the female ensemble. In 2022 Sarah performed as a female ensemble member in the cast of Phantom Of The Opera on Sydney Harbour. In 2022/2023 Sarah performed in the female ensemble of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 2023 Sarah also performed in AIDA with Opera Australia in the female dance ensemble. Most recently Sarah was part of ‘The Deb’ Movie directed by Rebel Wilson as an ensemble dancer.    

Naomi Norris

Naomi Norris

Instructor

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Naomi started her ballet training at the Qld Conservatoire of Ballet where she studied Vaganova, Cecchetti, and R.A.D syllabus. She completed two years at the New Zealand School of Dance where she received her Diploma of Dance before moving to New York to perform with Ajkun Ballet Theatre for a year.
She moved to London and furthered her training at the International College of Musical Theatre and performed in productions in various theatres in the West End. Some highlights include performing as a ballerina in one of Andrea Bocelli’s live performances and playing the ballerina body-double for a feature film set for release in 2026. 
During her years in London, her passion for teaching developed as she taught daily children’s and adult classes at the London Russian Ballet School before being appointed as head of Contemporary for the Vocational school. She ran dance outreach programs at various primary schools in the UK and in 2023 started a business running adult dance workshops.
She is passionate about helping and inspiring others to achieve their goals.
Liz Marcobello

Liz Marcobello

Instructor

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Liz is an accomplished dancer and highly sought after Pilates instructor specialising in Mat, Barre and Reformer. Her experience in both Dance and Pilates makes her an incredible source of knowledge to train our dancers to care for their bodies in order to ensure a long, safe and successful dance career.
Dominique Prasad

Dominique Prasad

Instructor

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Dominique’s training and experience as a professional commercial dancer has seen her dance for multiple music videos, corporate events and stage shows.  

Dominique has been working and teaching in the industry for just over a decade. She grew up training at Constant Groove Dance Studio where she was fortunate to be trained by Danielle Cook, Zoey Black, Daryl Morante, Holly Sheils and Jessica Smithson. When she was 18, she completed her Certificate IV in Dance at Brent Street in 2016 and has continued to broaden her training including the prestigious Dream Show /Business course in 2018 run by Marko Panzic and Katie Sanchez.

Dominique’s performance credits include working as the assistant/dancer/choreographer to grand illusionist Jack Daniels. Dance and choreography for the entertainment company Immaculate Productions since 2018 including live performances and music videos. Dancer in Milan Ring’s Music Video ‘Pick Me Up’ choreographed by Sela Vai, Dancer for the Optus Awards Night 2021, Assistant Choreographer/Dancer for the Google float – Mardi Gras Parade 2023 and a variety of dancer/choreographer jobs for 100% Dance Entertainment since 2021, just to name a few.

Dominique’s studio management/teaching responsibilities at 100% Dance make her a wonderful role model for our students wanting a career in the performing arts both on stage and in the studio.

Rachell Dade

Rachell Dade

Instructor

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Sydney based dancer and choreographer, Rachell Dade is a powerful force of sunshiney energy. She’s dedicated her life to the exploration of bold, colourful expressions of culture from around the world. As a performer, Rachell brings absolute fire and presence to the stage. For her it is always about connecting with and moving her audience.

As a facilitator and dance instructor, Rachell works hard to be your own personal hype woman, she creates a safe space for you to learn and feel good moving your body. She hopes her passion for the rich culture and history behind dance is passed on, and our respect and
support returns to the communities behind rhythms and movements we love so much.

Her latest collabs have been the likes of Google on their AI Dance
App, which was presented at their annual developer conference in LA, Dance Coordinator for Solange Knowles on her Sydney Vivid tour at the Opera House and the smiling, dancing, bod of Bonds comfy undies. She’s incredibly passionate about sharing Dancehall and was crowned Oceanic Dancehall Queen in 2017. She works hard
to keep her community pumping with energy and life as all in
all Rach loves the deep connection we all share through movement.

Raquel Cannon

Raquel Cannon

Instructor

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Raquel Cannon is a highly respected artist in her own right with years of experience in film, television and live entertainment.

Raquel holds an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts and has trained extensively at Sydney Acting Studio and The Actors Station.

Raquel’s credits include her role as an Actress, Dancer and Choreographer on the acclaimed feature film “Love you Like That”, A role in Shiseido’s makeup TVC, work as an extra on “The Invisible Man” and guest appearances on Channel 10’s “The Living Room”

Aidan Malacaria

Aidan Malacaria

Instructor

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Aiden has flipped his way across the globe with companies such as Cirque du Soleil, Guinness World Records, Opera Australia, and many more being part of various show creations, show cycles, and tours. All while continuing his creative endeavours as composer, producer, and singer-songwriter amassing a portfolio in both circus and music industries. 

Sophia Kaloudis

Sophia Kaloudis

Instructor

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Sophia Kaloudis is from Sydney Australia and has been dancing since she was just 3 years old and never ever looked back! Sophia is incredibly versatile having been trained in almost all genres of dance including ballet, pointe, lyrical, contemporary, jazz, theatre jazz/musical theatre, tap, hip hop, acrobatics, and pas de deux/partnering.

In 2010, she was awarded Dancer of the Year at Showcase National Dance Championships and won a trip to dance and compete in the USA.

Sophia completed 4.5 years of full time ballet training and has achieved an Elite Diploma of Dance. In 2015 she trained full time at Joffrey Ballet School in New York City where she had the chance to perform in two classical ballet productions, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Sophia has also trained at The Queensland Ballet, and trained in the pre-professional program at Melbourne City Ballet where she had the chance to perform with the company.

Her professional contracts include 3 incredible contracts with Royal Caribbean International Cruise LInes as a dancer/performer and choreographer.

She has been both part of the teaching faculty for Loredo Malcolm’s LOcREaDO Dance Company Programs and a performer for the LOcREaDO Professional Company where she performed in two different Contemporary Shows, Grounded and ARKiTEKNiCiANS. 

Sophia was then offered her first contract with RWS in New York City dancing for Holland America Cruise onboard the Eurodam, where she was part of the inaugural cast for the Company. 

Since returning home, Sophia works as a passionate dance teacher + choreographer in Sydney.

Olivia Reilly

Olivia Reilly

Instructor

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Liv originally hails from Brisbane and has grown up in a family-owned Dance School on the Northside (Reilly Dance Academy). Throughout her training, Liv was heavily involved with Brisbane City Youth Ballet and Harvest Rain Theatre Company; she also trained at Queensland Dance School of Excellence.

 

In 2016 Liv relocated to Sydney to continue her training at Ed5 International, after 2 years of intense full time training, graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts.

 

Along with Dancing and Singing, Liv has worked on various Film and TV sets of the likes of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales (Walt Disney Pictures), Mako Island (Jonathan M. Shiff),  Reefbreak (ABC studios International DISNEY media distribution) and ELVIS (Baz Luhrmann).

 

Working closely with industry professionals from Choreographers to Directors to Actors- Liv possesses the tools and knowledge to create artistic pieces and inspire through movement.

In 2010, she was awarded Dancer of the Year at Showcase National Dance Championships and won a trip to dance and compete in the USA.

Sophia completed 4.5 years of full time ballet training and has achieved an Elite Diploma of Dance. In 2015 she trained full time at Joffrey Ballet School in New York City where she had the chance to perform in two classical ballet productions, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Sophia has also trained at The Queensland Ballet, and trained in the pre-professional program at Melbourne City Ballet where she had the chance to perform with the company.

Her professional contracts include 3 incredible contracts with Royal Caribbean International Cruise LInes as a dancer/performer and choreographer.

She has been both part of the teaching faculty for Loredo Malcolm’s LOcREaDO Dance Company Programs and a performer for the LOcREaDO Professional Company where she performed in two different Contemporary Shows, Grounded and ARKiTEKNiCiANS.

Sophia was then offered her first contract with RWS in New York City dancing for Holland America Cruise onboard the Eurodam, where she was part of the inaugural cast for the Company.

Since returning home, Sophia works as a passionate dance teacher + choreographer in Sydney.

Sean Jackson

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Jess Innes and the 100% Dance faculty are some of the most incredible and professional dance and performing arts instructors in the industry. As a graduate of their 2024 Full-Time Pro program, I feel so grateful to have been equipped with the skills, knowledge, and training required to build a long-lasting career in dance and the performing arts.

What makes the program truly unique is its intimate cohort size and holistic approach. Every student is seen as an individual, and the team genuinely invests in each person’s skill set, dreams and ambitions. I experienced this first-hand when the faculty personally supported me through my audition process for Universal Studios. Their guidance not only gave me the technical preparation I needed, but also the confidence and belief in myself to achieve my dream of securing a long-term contract overseas.

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