The Academy International is the premier full-time dance training academy in the ACT Region with proven quality and demonstrated success. TAI encompasses both Classical Ballet with Contemporary and commercial genres - Lyrical, Jazz and Hip-Hop. Where the greater number of talented or 'serious' students feel the need to travel to Sydney or Melbourne to seek advanced level of training, TAI fills the previously identifiable void in the local market by offering state of the art facilities, a premium and comprehensive syllabus and highly regarded instructors.
World Renowned Tutelage
The Academy International prides itself on its international network of world renowned professional principal dancers, former dancers and teachers to further inspire and motivate the students. Our students have the fortune of having the guidance, nurturing and tutelage of some of the most outstanding dancers and teachers in the world.
Joy Womack - Joseph Gatti - Taras Dimitro - Adiarys Almeida - Sergei - Chengwu Guo - Lisa Macuja - Tristan Laniero - Avery Gay - Venus Villa - Joseph Phillips - Francesco Daniele da Costa - Ako Kondo - Ryo Kato - Hyo Shimizu
Meet our Principal
As a teacher, the Academy Principal, Daniel Convery, has had wonderful success coaching students of various abilities and ages at National Capital Ballet School and previous employs in Melbourne successfully for The Australian Ballet School ITP and full time program, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and New Zealand School of Dance (in both the ballet and the contemporary programs), as well as those he taught and coached who made the finals at the Prix de Lausanne, Switzerland, City of Sydney Eisteddfod, and winners of the Cecchetti medal test competitions and Cecchetti International Ballet Competition.