Our Teachers
Natasha Jones, RAD RTS
Studio Principal, Senior Ballet Teacher
Tash studied ballet in Launceston at the Margaret Stirling School of Ballet and successfully completed all her RAD Graded and Vocational exams. She completed her RAD Teaching Certificate in 2005, receiving a Distinction in her teaching exam.
Tash taught at Barbara Todd School of Ballet from 2001 - 2015. She then taught at Body Language Dance in Bellerive which then became Industrie Performing Arts from 2016 - 2022.
Tash was a freelance RAD teacher in Melbourne, teaching in numerous schools including the Christa Cameron School of Ballet, The Dance Precinct and Dancescape.
Tash has a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies (ANU) and a Graduate Certificate in Management (UTAS). She is a registered RAD teacher and a certified Progressing Ballet Technique teacher. Tash is the Southern Tasmanian representative on the RAD Victorian/Tasmanian Regional Advisory Panel.
Jo Hills, RAD RTS
Senior Ballet Teacher
Jo was a talented student of Barbara Todd and owned and ran the school with great success since Mrs Todd’s retirement from teaching in 1997.
Jo is a very experienced registered RAD teacher and is well known and loved for her fun and engaging classes for all ages and her imaginative and entertaining ballet productions.
Susan Hill Henning, LRAD ARAD
Adult Ballet Teacher
Susan’s dance teaching training was at the Royal Academy of Dance in London graduating with the College Graduation Certificate and Diploma for Licentiate. Susan has over 40 years experience teaching classical ballet to all levels from the very young beginner in the RAD Grade levels to the dedicated male and female students at the RAD Vocational levels.
Susan is a former RAD Children’s Examiner examining in Australia and Internationally.
In 2006 she was appointed as a RAD Faculty of Education Classical Ballet Teaching Studies CBTS tutor – Practical Teaching Supervisor and a Freelance Faculty member class teacher for RAD student courses. In 2018 she was approved as a tutor for the licensee training of Silver Swans Classes for teachers.
Susan teaches freelance nationally in Australia and is also a qualified Pilates Mat Instructor specialising in the strength training of ballet technique through the Pilates method for young dancers.
Chloe Schiro
Pre-school and Ballet Foundations Teacher
Chloe is a 21-year-old University student, currently halfway through her Primary and Early Childhood Education degree.
Chloe works at St Michaels Collegiate School as a primary school Teachers Assistant, which she has done since graduating from Collegiate in 2020.
Chloe started ballet at Barbara Todd Ballet School at the age of five, with Jo Hills and Natasha as her teachers. Chloe continued to dance at the school until high school, with her fondest ballet memories being her Nutcracker concert where she played the role of a Christmas elf.
Chloe has always had a love for ballet and began teaching the Pre-school Ballet classes at Barbara Todd Ballet in 2023.
“We don’t teach kids to make great dancers, we teach dance to make great kids.”
- Misty Lown