REGISTRARS

Emily Euman - “Laces”. 18 years old

Emily Euman began her dance journey in a small country town in the Latrobe Valley at the age of 2 with the supportive dance teachers at Gippsland Academy of Dance. At the age of 14, she moved to Melbourne where she trained at the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School for years 9 and 10. It was here that I was mentored by some of Australia’s most recognisable prima ballerinas including Madeline Eastoe. In her final years of schooling, Emily studied at the Transit Dance Academy where she focused on her commercial jazz and contemporary training.

Emily has been a part of the DANCE PRESCRIPTION family for 4 years now and she credits the training at DANCE PRESCRIPTION for catapulting her technique to the next level. She was offered the opportunity to be a Lab Assistant in 2022 which saw her travel to assist in workshops with Dr. Lisa in Melbourne, Adelaide, the Sunshine Coast, the Gold Coast and Perth. In 2023, Emily was chosen to assist on the 2023 UK tour where she assisted at workshops across England, Scotland and Wales. This experience was a highlight for her and she was lucky to make new connections with dancers, teachers and choreographers.

In addition to her classical and jazz training, Emily has a background of 3 years of aerial training, consisting of silks and lyra (hoop), coached by a former aerialist from Cirque Du Soleil Rachel Hunt. She also has private singing coaching with Sophie Weiss (Elsa in Frozen the Musical Aus).

In competitive dance, Emily has won overall aggregates repeated times at the Morwell Festival of Dance, and Latrobe Valley Eisteddfod, and has also won Champion Dancer at Follow Your Dreams. She is well versed in the ATOD syllabus and has been very successful in their State and Australasian Ballet Scholarships. In 2019 she was awarded 1st Place in both the ATOD Victorian Scholarship and ATOD Australasian Scholarship. 

Other dance experience includes RISE the Performance Experience (where she represented them as an Ambassador and as the Senior Team Leader in the Dance Stream), the Ballarat Dance Awards, and Scholarships to Jason Coleman's Ministry Of Dance, Transit Dance, Dance World and most recently Brent Street Intensives. She has also completed training at the Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Intensive. 

Emily is passionate about teaching and educating young dancers and has recently started working with students in private consultations at DANCE PRESCRIPTION. She is planning to open up more opportunities this year to teach more students, both privately and in group settings.

Lily Grinstead - “Tabby”. 15 years old

Tabby aka tabs or tabby cat started training at Kinderballet at the age of 2. She then moved to Dance Discovery where she dance for 10 years. She is currently dancing at Patrick’s School of the Arts.

abby was successful in her audition to join DANCE PRESCRIPTION in 2020 and loves being a Lab Assistant where she gets to assist at workshops and meet dancers from all different places. She has toured all over Australia with DANCE PRESCRIPTION and was fortunate enough to be apart of the 2023 UK international tour with Dance Prescription.

Outside of DANCE PRESCRIPTION, Tabby has participated in the 2023 and 2024 Rise programs. She has been a part of SCIMM Ascension as well as The Australian Ballet Summer school programs in 2018, 2019. Tabby has danced for "Together We Dance”, a fundraiser for the Royal Children’s Hospital. Tabby has also competed as a soloist dancer winning aggregates (Stage attack and Metropolitan festival of dance)  and a grand aggregate at Stage attack. Tabby has competed in ATOD state championships winning the state Jazz champ in Sub-junior, Junior, Intermediate and Senior levels. Tabby also won the Senior National Jazz Championship at only 15 Years old.

Tabby dreams of pursuing a career in dance and is excited to see where that takes her!

Chloe Georgakopoulos - “Pretzel”. 15 years old.

Pretzel is 15 years old has trained with DANCE PRESCRIPTION for the last 4 years. In 2023 Pretzel was successful in achieving her goal of becoming a Lab Assistant, which saw her travel around Australia on a travel scholarship to assist at Dr. Lisa’s workshops. Her favourite part of travelling for workshops is meeting the dancers and seeing so many cool places!

Pretzel’s dance training found brilliant foundations with Niche Dance Studios where she specialised in classical ballet and acro. She was invited by Cecchetti Ballet to record the Grade 1 and 2 syllabus videos, to be used as an example for teachers and students to assist with exam preparation. She was part of the prestigious Cecchetti Ballet Scholar Program in 2020 and 2021.

Other programs Pretzel has been part of include SCIMM’s Dance Company and Youth Platforms program. She has also participated in the RISE and Dream Creative Programs and is especially grateful to Mitch and Jackie, the Directors of RISE, for providing her with the opportunity to model for and shoot a video for Studio 7 Dancewear.

In 2023, Pretzel travelled to the Gold Coast to compete at Evolution Nationals and was very excited to be awarded the National Champion in all her solos and also the Highest scoring soloist for her age group in Evo Apprentice.

Pretzel now trains at The Dance Company and loves learning from new choreographers and challenging herself to go beyond her comfort zone. She can’t wait to see what this year has in store!

Savannah Knight - "Desert”. 16 years old

Desert first became a part of the Dance Prescription team in 2017 when she was 9 years old. Since then, she has absolutely loved every moment of training, workshops, and touring. Her favourite experience with DANCE PRESCRIPTION was assisting Dr. Lisa at workshops across the UK. This gave her the opportunity to not only dance overseas, but to challenge herself technically, push her leadership and teaching skills, learn from new choreographers, and of course have an absolute blast with her DANCE PRESCRIPTION family.

Desert also trains at Patrick School of the Arts, where she attends the high school academy. She absolutely loves getting the skills she gains from PSA and getting to work on her craft as a performer. At PSA she learns all styles of dance as well as singing and acting. Her favourite dance styles are musical theatre, jazz, contemporary and lyrical.

Other extension programs Desert has also trained with include SCIMM, Platforms Youth Company and Ascension program.

Desert favourite technical skills are jumps and kick turns. Desert also loves challenging herself to try new skills and achieve what she didn’t think was possible. Being a part of the DANCE PRESCRIPTION team has made this incredibly easy, as everyone is super supportive and she feels constantly pushed to be better.

Desert has been competing across Australia since she was 9, is solos and troupes. In 2019 Desert competed with Next Generation Dance Studio at KAR dance competition in Las Vegas before going on to win a trip to dance at KAR in the US the following year.

Now she uses her passion for choreographing to create her own solos for competitions. In 2021 Desert was the 12-13 Evo Elite winner (at Evolution Dance Competition) and in 2024, she was the highest scoring Senior soloist, with her own choreography at Hollywood Bound Nationals.