TEAM RADAR
Rebecca Davies transformed the Australian dance industry with Radar Technique Pty Ltd.
Rebecca 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 to improve and enhance them.
After completing a Bachelor of Arts and Master of teaching degree at the university of Sydney, Rebecca realised her love has always been to be a dance teacher. Rebecca is in the unique position of having a history of being both a freelance teacher and a dance studio director. With 29 years of teaching and coaching experience, Rebecca Davies has launched countless careers with The Australian Ballet, Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, 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 had 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 Australian Olympian 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 enables 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’s 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 to 36 countries with dancer, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award recipient, actor and social media influencer, Ashleigh Ross. Ashleigh is a gifted triple threat actor, dancer and 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 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!
The home base for the Radar Technique Pty Ltd touring assistants is ARCHITECT SQUADRON, an audition only program for gifted, talented and like-minded students.
Rebecca is proud to be a permanent technique and conditioning teacher at three leading performing arts studios in Melbourne.
Rebecca strongly believes that class, workshops and conventions should be ALL ABOUT THE STUDENTS and passionately strives to give her dancers wings in order to become whatever they would like to be.
Zouzu Aziz
Zouzu Olivia Aziz over her years of training has had the pleasure to be coached by Rebecca Davies as a foundation member for many years. As a commercial, contemporary and acrobatic trained performer she completed her Diploma in Dance (Elite Performance) at TNSPA.PROFESSIONAL in 2018.
Having attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, Zouzu Olivia also has a strong background in ballet, classical and neo-classical training. Furthermore, Zouzu Olivia has had the opportunity to work and train with some of Australia’s choreographers such as Squared Division, Kelley Abbey and more. She was also a part of the Locreado Dance Company for 4 years where she had the experience of touring with the company.
In 2018 and 2019 she was lucky enough to perform with Cher and Kylie Monigue and has been part of many corporate and TV/Film jobs (including Australia’s Got Talent) within the performing arts industry.
In 2020, Zouzu Olivia commenced her Bachelor of Health Science (Exercise) to broaden her knowledge about the biomechanics and function of athletes and has graduated. In 2023 Zouzu Olivia enrolled in a Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction (Triple Threat Pilates Pro) at PilatesITC where she has extended her education about the functions of the human body. She is grateful to have also been mentored by Helen Stamatakos at Pilates Insync during this time and currently where she has also been a client for many years.
Zouzu Olivia has now been working alongside Rebecca Davies & RADAR Technique for the last 5 years and is teaching all over Australia and world wide.
Team Radar Faculty
Tahlysia Smedley
Anna Logachova
Alex Kiror- Bogatyreva
Shontaya Smedley
Holly Tinsley
Holly Neale
Zoe Cockerell
“Radar Technique is Australia’s leading technique and conditioning program for dancers and athletes.”
ASHLEIGH MAREE ROSS aka “ASHI“, is a 16 year old Dancer, actor and all round performer from Sydney Australia. Having obtained her O1 Visa to work in the USA, from 2014 she has been travelling back and forth between USA and Australia and touring Nationally and Internationally with Rebecca Davies, assisting with the RADAR workshops.
Ashleigh, when based in LA, trains with Miss Abby at the Abby Lee Dance Company and whilst in Australia, she trains exclusively with her coach Rebecca Davies.
Ashleigh has obtained two international endorsements to her name, having just released (January 2016) her second collection of her own dance wear line “Ashi By Energetiks” and the dance training tool “Official Ashi Turnboard” by Ballet is fun/GOPI enterprises.
Ashleigh has appeared on USAs CBS Television show “The Talk” dancing for the amazing “Mrs O” (Sharon Osborne). She has also appeared in numerous TV commercials and catalogues, was the lead child performer in two major musicals, Cameron Mackintosh & Disney’s Mary Poppins and Tim Lawsons, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
TV credits include A Place to Call Home 2015, The Talk CBS LA 2015, Spirited ABC TV 2011, My Place ABC3 2010, Dance Academy ABC3, 2010, Webisode Girlfriend Magazine just to name a few.
Radar Technique
RADAR TECHNIQUE was conceived and developed by Rebecca Davies, an Australian dance teacher who was passionate about the Australian dance community and wanted to share her knowledge and expertise to help revolutionise the way dancers trained.
Rebecca developed a number of drills, exercises and techniques and created a series of 90 minute workshops. These workshops exploded into weekly travels nationally then internationally as more and more dancers and teachers wanted to know the “secrets” to RADAR TECHNIQUE.
RADAR TECHNIQUE workshops focus on pirouettes, kick turns, dance conditioning, jumps/leaps and dance tricks. Rebecca then expanded even more to develop a unique program, which help to enhance dancers AFTER the workshop, as the dancer is taught HOW to analyse dance technique and apply this to their own future learning.
Frustrated with Australian dancers perceiving themselves as so far behind the American technical standard, Rebecca is passionate in her mission to help as many teachers and their dancers as possible learn Radar Technique.
Rebecca has been travelling and holding workshops at studios with her dance assistants since 2010 in conjunction with the release of several instructional DVDs focusing on tips and tricks for better pirouettes and conditioning programs to obtain stronger and more functional dancers physiques.
Rebecca explains: “I am passionate about helping young dancers to look after their physiques and find their strengths and limitations at an early age so as to improve and enhance them.
“Class and training should always be fun, setting up a lifelong enjoyment for fitness.
“By mixing my high intensity strength and flexibility exercises with humour and fun, students leave my class feeling inspired, confident and armed with the tools to learn about their dancer’s body.”
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Our Commitment to Child Safety
CHILD SAFE STATEMENT
Radar Technique PTY LTD is committed to child safety.
We want children to be safe, happy and empowered. We support and respect all children, as well as our guest teachers and volunteers.
We are committed to the safety, participation and empowerment of all children.
We have zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated very seriously and consistently with our robust policies and procedures.
We have obligations to contact relevant authorities and/or take certain actions when we are concerned about a child’s safety, which we intend to follow rigorously.
Our organisation is committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early, and removing and reducing these risks.
Our organisation has robust human resources and recruitment practices for our organisation. Our organisations is committed to regularly training and educating our organisation on child abuse risks.
We support and respect all children, as well as guest teachers and parent volunteers. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, the cultural safety of children from a culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for children with a disability.
Every person involved in Radar Technique PTY LTD has a responsibility to understand that the wellbeing and safety of the children is the forefront of every decision they make. We have specific policies, procedures and training in place that support this organisation to achieve these commitments.
If you would like to view the RADAR TECHNIQUE Child Wellbeing and Safety Policy and Code of Conduct in full please email radartechnique@gmail.com