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The year 2025 sees CBDS celebrate it’s 40th year as an operating dance studio business! It all started with Cheryl Bradley, who trained as a professional dancer and teacher with Gwen Mackey, Helen Bienke and Roger Hicks at the Adelaide College of Dance. In 1985 the Clearview dance studio doors opened, bringing together a community of dancers that were taught by Cheryl Bradley and her team in the surrounding areas of Ingle farm, Para Vista, Enfield, North Adelaide and Pooraka. Over the last forty years CBDS has upheld a strong tradition of fostering professional dancers and dance teachers with training in RAD & CSTD & Acro Arts Syllabus and an assistant teacher apprenticeship program, which now also includes access to certificate 3 & 4 in dance and teacher training.
Many dancers from the studio have gone onto pre-professional institutions, including WAAPA, The Australian Ballet School, and The National Ballet School. CBDS dancers have also performed in companies including The Australian Ballet, The Western Australian Ballet Company, Nederlands Dans Theater, Houston Ballet, and Oregon Ballet Theatre.
CBDS continues to be involved in local community events and is especially proud of the annual tradition of performing with the South Australian Christmas Pageant, a tradition that began from when Cheryl performed as a troupe, and later lead, dancer when with the Gwen Mackey Dancers. CBDS have also been proud participants of Candance For A Cure since its beginning in 2010. In 2015, a tour group of 30 CBDS dancers, accompanied by their families and teachers, travelled together to USA in partnership with Dance Around the World, performing at Universal Studios, Hollywood Boulevard in LA and Disneyland in Anaheim. This experience also included once in a lifetime masterclasses and workshops at LA DanceForce. Additionally, CBDS has performed annually at the SA Dance Festival since its launch in 2017.
During the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, CBDS continued to care for their dance community through offering dance tuition via zoom. Thankfully, the studio was soon back to in-person classes and in 2024 the studio continues to grow, offering Acrobatic Arts classes and access to certified Pilates sessions with an onsite Reformer, Wunda Chair and Cadillac equipment. CBDS continues to offer participation for soloists and troupe teams in dance competitions and are proud of our all our dancers achievements, with teams continuing to gain regional and national Championship titles.
CBDS Alumni - Natalie Marsland
Performer & Choreographer
Since being a dancer at CBDS, Natalie's career as a choreographer has seen her work performed throughout Australia, New York, Korea, the United States and on the West End.
As a performer, Natalie has appeared in many shows, including Sunset Boulevard, The Boy for Oz, Mamma Mia!, Guys & Dolls, and The Producers. She received a Nomination for Green Room Award for Best Choreography in a Musical and was the winner of Guild Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
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Natalie now lives in London and operates her own company, Reuben Feels, an immersive storytelling company.
CBDS Alumni - Danielle Rowe
Principal Dancer, Australian Ballet, Houston Ballet & Nederlands Dans Theatre
Danielle trained in Newcastle and Adeaide before joining The Australian Ballet in 2001. Danielle won Telstra's People's choice award in both 2003 and 2005 and, in 2008, became a principle artist with the company.
Danielle travelled to New York due to winning the Wlater Burke prize in 2009, where she performed with Christopher Wheeldon's dance company Morphoses. Additionally, in 2010 she won a Helpmann Award for her performance in Dyad 1929 by Wayne McGregor.
2011 saw Danielle join the Houston Ballet as a first soloist (senior artist in Australian Ballet terms) and in August later that same year promoted to principal dancer. A year later Danielle was named one of '25 to watch' by Dance Magazine.
CBDS Alumni - Leanne Marsland
Cabaret Performer
After growing up in the CBDS studio, Leanne taught dance and choreographed extensively throughout Adelaide. Leanne went on to graduate from the University of Ballarat Arts Academy with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre in 2008. ​Since graduating, Leanne has played various roles for The Production Company and performed her cabaret show, Love Me xx, in the finals of Short Sweet + Cabaret Festival 2009 and in the inaugural Melbourne Cabaret Festival in 2010, which became so popular Leanne went on to create the full length version, which made its debut at The Butterfly Club in July 2012.
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Highlights have included: choreographing the musical Parade (University of Ballarat), choreographing/directing Best of Broadway (Style Music Theatre) and teaching/choreographing the Broadway Bound Music Theatre short courses (VCA). Leanne continues to pursue a career in the performing arts industry, including creating and performing her own work through various art forms, such as through her website 'Fineline Illustration'.
CBDS Alumni - Kate Skully
Dancer & Qualified Pilates Instructor
After studying at Cheryl Bradley Dance Studios, joined the Adelaide Centre for the Arts, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Dance Performance. Kate performed in works by Peter Sheedy, Fiona Malone and Anton, and was part of the year that won Best Contemporary Dance at the International Dance Awards in Costa Brava, Spain, 2005. In 2006 she performed in Alison Currie’s ‘House Project’, "M" which was a solo choreographed by Amanda Phillips and performed three works (by Sela Kiek, Jo Lloyd and Tim Harvey respectively) in Gradlab at Danchouse, Melbourne.
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In 2007 Kate choreographed ‘[Interrobang]’ for the Adelaide Fringe and received a Helpmann Academy Optus mentorship to work with Amanda Phillips on 3d Stereoscopics.
Today, Kate is a fully qualified pilates instructor operating in Adelaide, SA.
