Jacqueline Peperkamp - Artistic Director, Teacher, Visual Entertainer.

Classes are described as welcoming & friendly, encouraging & empowering. Jacqueline's professional skills will encourage the new beginner with a positive outlook towards their own body, a firm knowledge with each dance technique & most of all connecting with her students as part of a group/troupe structure.

Jacqueline has a lifetime career in the creative arts, a passion for dance & theatre. In 2010 she celebrates her 14th year teaching. More recently is invited to teach nationwide in Tribal Style Bellydance techniques & Contemporary Fusion Bellydance. She first commenced bellydance in 1995 with teacher/friend & mentor, Perla Fefey. In 2004 she opened her very own dance studio.

Conducts specialty workshops & personally trains teachers & their students locally, statewide & interstate. In 2009, Jacqueline foundered Tribal Mosaic Winter Retreat in an attempt to 'unite' dance troupes & teachers together. The successful retreat weekend enriched the community. Offering a mosaic of activities for all levels along with tasty organic food! The retreat event was a success & highly complimented. The retreat will be held as a bi-annual event on the Tribal Bellydance calendar in 2011. Jacqueline is actively involved in co-sponsoring international master teachers from the USA & co-organising various National Tribal Bellydance events. Jacqueline is experienced in staging at all levels including: stage presentation, choreography, music interpretation, costume design and performance makeup application.

Earlier career in the performing arts. Jacqueline began her lifelong passion for dance from the age of 4 on the Islands of her birth country,  Papua New Guinea. Her primary school years were spent on stage from modeling, performing classical ballet. High school years were spent acting & singing as a chorus member with Illawarra's Arcadian Theatre group. At 16 she audition interstate for Melbourne based Contemporary Dance Ensemble at St Martins Youth Arts Centre performing as a cast member for 3 years studying Graham Murphy Technique. A Victorian state finalist in the National Flash Dance competition, she danced in various Australian Film & Television productions such as Countdown, Carsons Law (VIC) & The Brisbane Breakie Show (QLD).

Achievements

*Award winner  ‘Amera’s Palace Belly Dance Logie’ earned recognition for her consistent study and teachings over the last decade.

*Teacher training certificate 2004 with Belyssa (AUST - WA)

*Personal training with Devi Mamak 2004-2006 (AUST - NSW)

*General Skills Certificate 2007 - Carolena Nerriccio & Megha Gavin (from USA).

*Collective Soul Certificate 2008 - Gypsy Caravan Paulette Rees-Denis (from USA).

*Travelled to INDIA 2009 & personally trained at Colleena Shakti School of Dance 

*Workshops with Rachel Brice, Blue Damsel, Heather Stants & Jill Parker (from USA) and many others in various styles during her first decade of M.E.D. (within AUST)