Rebecca Davies
Rebecca Davies transformed the Australian dance industry with Radar Technique Pty Ltd.
Rebecca Davies is constantly in high demand world-wide for her life-changing workshops which transform dancers’ techniques in a matter of minutes. Rebecca has pioneered a technique and style of dance coaching which enables young dancers through to professionals to find their strengths and limitations, and to improve and enhance them.
Now a world renowned Technique Consultant and Master Teacher, Rebecca is in the unique position of having a history of being both a freelance teacher and a dance studio director. With 23 years of teaching and coaching experience, Rebecca Davies has launched countless careers with The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, the Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, New York City Ballet, the Royal Scottish Ballet and contemporary companies world wide! Rebecca Davies is proud to have trained 2 Simba’s in The Lion King, 7 “ballet girls” cast in Billy Elliot the Musical as well as the role of Michael and of Billy Elliot himself! Dancers have also appeared in Wicked, Strictly Ballroom, Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, West Side Story and Dirty Dancing as well as countless stage and television appearances.
Her students have also has main roles in the Australia dance classic movie Razzle Dazzle, TV series Dance Academy, ABC TV as warm up entertainment and have worked in productions with Opera Australia. Rebecca Davies is tremendously proud to have worked with Rhythmic Gymnast Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva who was awarded a double bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games and is the 2018 Australian Rhythmic Gymnastics Champion.
Radar Technique treats the dancer as equally an Artist and Athlete. This ennables the dancer to instantly analyse their own personal limitations and safely enhance their goals. With her unique and ever evolving teaching methods, Rebecca passionately believes that class and training should always be FUN, setting up a lifelong enjoyment for fitness, and does this by mixing her high intensity strength and flexibility exercises with humour. Students leave her class laughing and feeling inspired, confident and armed with the tools to learn about their dancer’s body and accelerate their journey to being the best dancer they can be. Cappuccino the dachshund has become the infamous symbol of Rebecca Davies’ teaching style, methodology and distinctive sense of humour which is geared to make dancers feel comfortable but also remember the technical lesson!!!
Rebecca Davies has toured Australia, New Zealand, the USA and UK with dancer, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award recipient, actor and social media influencer, Ashleigh Ross. Ashleigh is a gifted triple-threat actor, dancer, singer, with well over a million combined worldwide Social Media following. Ashleigh’s positive and kind influence on young dancers across the globe is phenomenal!!!!!
Since 2010, Rebecca Davies and Radar Technique Pty Ltd have toured with her unique and constantly evolving workshop program to the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Gibraltar, Spain, Germany, England, France, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Scotland and every State and Territory across Australia. In 2016 Rebecca and Ashleigh Ross toured the USA for 4 weeks working with young entertainers such as Maddie Ziegler, Mackenzie Ziegler, Kendall Vertes, Kalani Hilliker, Nia Sioux, Gavin and Kenzie Morales, JoJo Siwa, Brady Farrar, Elliana Walmsley and The Couch Sisters.
Rebecca has been a close friend to Abby Lee Miller since 2010 and has worked at the ALDC Pittsburgh Studio countless times. Rebecca filmed an episode of DANCE MOMS in 2012. When the ALDC toured to Australia, Abby Lee personally requested Rebecca to hold a private technique and conditioning master class for the “Dance Moms” cast, Maddie Ziegler, Mackenzie Ziegler, Kendall Vertes and Kalani Hilliker with assistants Tara Bajan and gymnast Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva. Rebecca was the first teacher to present at the ALDCLA grand opening and has been invited to conduct countless Radar Technique master classes with assistant Ashleigh Ross.
Rebecca is proud to have been invited in as a specialist workshop presenter at DANCE WORLD CUP in both Germany and Spain and is thrilled to be returning for a third year in a row to the finals in Portugal! Rebecca was also a guest judge at the Dance World Cup qualifiers in South Africa in 2017. Rebecca was honoured to recently discover that the dance convention “Elite Dance Challenge” was created in order to bring her across to Toronto! She is delighted to have been invited back for a third year in a row in 2019.
“Class and training should always be fun, setting up a lifelong enjoyment for fitness.”
Rebecca is a proud member of the permanent teaching staff at Starz Performing Arts, Melbourne
Studio Directors: Carly Lagana and Sally Fellows
Instagram: @starzperformingarts
carlylagana@hotmail.com