RACHELLE KELLETT

BCA, CBTS, RAD RTS, Dip (Dance Teaching & Management), Stott Pilates®trained

Classical Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap, Pilates

Principal and founder of Steps Performing Arts, Rachelle Kellett has dedicated herself to teaching dance for the past 20 years. Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) classically trained, Rachelle studied under Angela Hill and Marita Lowden, and holds a Bachelor in Creative Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts where, in addition to visual arts, she honed her contemporary dance craft. She also completed further dance training at Broadway Dance Center, Steps on Broadway and Peridance Capezio Center in New York City. As a young dancer Rachelle enjoyed many successful solo and troupe eisteddfod performances, graduating to dance professionally for ten years. This experience culminated in a decision to found Steps Performing Arts in 1999.

As Principal of Steps, Rachelle now loves nothing more than to see her students grow from tiny three year olds into confident and focused young women and men. Hers is a holistic approach to dance teaching, and she relishes the opportunity to read and respond to each student’s individual needs in coming to class. Specialising in RAD classical ballet, character, contemporary, neo-classical, tap, jazz, funk, Stott Pilates®and Total Barre™, Rachelle teaches various techniques to dancers of all ages and has played a critical role in many of her students becoming professional performers and dance teachers in their own right. 

In other professional development, Rachelle completed a Masters in Teaching in 2023. Complementing her dance practice, Rachelle is an avid photographer and can often be found with a camera in hand, capturing her students’ ephemeral moments of movement and colour, while documenting her creative vision.