No matter the age a dancer starts learning their first steps, it’s never easy! We’ve all witnessed to the near chaos that is a new beginners’ class - with kids of various ages, all learning at different rates. Many dancers start as young as two or three, so how do you even begin to strategise a structured approach to teaching dance to the new generation?
Enter Fiona Holmes ADCRG. It’s 2010, and a little two-year-old enters her Melbourne classroom. “It became apparent to me, that there are not many toddlers in the world that could learn the over two threes and beginner reel,” Armed with her Bachelors’ degree in Education, Fiona set out about formulating this structure and has launched it as an exciting and dynamic preschool program called Jump’n Jig. “I was looking to grow the school, so I accepted her enrolment and begun the very first preschool class. Through years of trial and error and countless little dancers, I wrote the program down and now teachers across the world are jumping onboard to teach Jump’n Jig in their own schools... Whilst it may appear to be an overnight success, Jump’n Jig has been eight years in the making.”
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