Guest Faculty
Jessica Nicholas
Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
Jessica Nicholas
Jessica Nicholas is a professional dancer, choreographer and movement specialist from Melbourne, Australia. She has over twenty years of experience in teaching, coaching, performing and choreographing a variety of dance styles including Jazz, Lyrical, Musical Theatre, Heels, Dance Fitness and Calisthenics.
As co-founder of Melbourne based children’s theatre company Silverjay Productions, Jessica also has extensive experience in developing, instructing and directing beginners, children and professional performers in dance and movement for the stage.
Jessica currently freelances as a choreographer and movement specialist. She has recently returned to Melbourne after living in Mumbai, India for 14 years where she was a faculty member at the Institute of Classical & Modern Dance (ICMD), Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company and Shiamak Davar’s Institute for Performing Arts teaching Jazz & Calisthenics. Jessica also runs regular Dance Fitness & Pre-School Creative Movement classes both in person and online.
Jimit Thaker
Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
Jimit Thaker
Jimit Thaker is a Dancer, Choreographer & Dance educator based in Mumbai, India.
He has done Diploma In Dance Foundation Course from Terence Lewis Dance Company, for further training he received the scholarship to attend Impulstanz International Dance Festival, Vienna.He has Performed and choreographed for Theatre and Broadway musical such as Yatagarasu & Keep calm & Dance directed by Yuki Ellias, Disney’s Broadway musical Beauty & the Beast and many more.
He have Choreographed and Performed in some of the finest and biggest Art & Dance festival naming a few-
Serendipity Art festival, 2017 & 2018, Kala Ghoda Art Festival, Impulstanz International dance festival Vienna, Thespo Art Festival, The Hindu theater Festival, Jugnee Contemporary dance festival, and many more.
KitLethby
Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
Kit Lethby
Among England’s most respected dancers, Kit Lethby was a principal/leading dancer with international companies such as Scottish Ballet, Basel Ballet, Australian Ballet and PACT Ballet. He has danced roles produced by renowned choreographers and also had many roles created for him.
In 1983 he began teaching and on his early retirement from dancing in 1988, went on to complete the Royal Academy of Dance Professional Dancer’s Teacher Training Course, from which he graduated with Distinction. Mr Lethby has been associated with Ecole Ballet and Dance Theatre for more than 28 years and during this association has seen many of the students graduate to the world’s top vocational schools. Over 70 of these students have gone on to become professional dancers.
As well as choreographing over 100 solos for competitions and eisteddfods, he has mounted various ballets for Ecole including ‘Graduation Ball’, ‘La Sylphide Act 2’ and ‘Napoli Act 3’ as well as several original works. Invited on an almost continual basis to be a Guest Teacher for Vacation Schools held by the Royal Academy of Dance around Australia and New Zealand, Mr Lethby has also taught for Royal New Zealand Ballet, Sydney Dance Company and PACT Ballet, S. Africa.
Mr Lethby became an Examiner for Royal Academy of Dance in 2004.