Kim Factor

Principal

Kim started ballet at the age of 3, and continued to learn all styles of dance with Karen Stephens, followed by The National Theatre. She completed both Royal Academy of Dance and Borovansky Ballet syllabus exams. Kim completed VCE dance and then went on to study full time dance at the National Theatre Ballet School. After full time dance Kim gained her bachelor in health studies and arts, majoring in Dance, Nutrition and Psychology.   Whilst at University Kim also completed her Royal Academy of Dance registered teachers certificate. Kim found her passion in teaching whilst she was still a student and taught for many schools around Victoria before starting her own school. Kim has trained hundreds of students in the RAD syllabus and loves to see her students grow a love for dance.

Olivia Lucas

Admin/Teacher

Olivia began dancing at age 3, training in many styles such as jazz, tap, ballet and contemporary. In 2015 she completed a degree in journalism at Monash University, but has always been most drawn to dance. Olivia holds a certificate III and IV in dance and completed fulltime training at Kelly Aykers School of Dance. She trained and performed in shows with professional company Lionheart Dance for several years, appearing in ‘Envision’ and ‘Clash’. Professional highlights include various music videos such as ‘Free to Love’ by Brendan Maclean and performing in Dubai. Olivia is most passionate about choreography and for the past few years has created her own worked appearing in ‘Grounded’, Lionheart’s ‘Envision’, 'VDF' and more.

Yasmin Williams

Teacher

Yasmin grew up in Mildura, VIC and started dancing at the age of 4. She has trained in a range of styles including ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap and hip hop. During this time she has undertaken RAD and CSTD exams. Her love of teaching started when she began assistant teaching at the age of 15.
In 2018, Yasmin moved to Melbourne to study at Monash University and began teaching at KFSD. Yasmin graduated from Monash University in 2022 with a Bachelor of Education (Honours).
Yasmin has a particular love for teaching junior classes and aims to develop a joy of movement from a young age with her students at KFSD!

Molly Fynmore

Teacher

Molly has been training for over 13 years in classical ballet, contemporary, jazz and lyrical. She has completed 4 years of a part-time ballet program, whilst completing all Royal Academy of Dance syllabus exams from Grade 1-8 and completing many vocational exams from Intermediate foundation to Advance 1. She has won many Royal Academy of Dance prizes through numerous RAD competitions. Molly was also chosen to dance two years in a row at the Season of Dance Excellence (top class) for achieving high results in both VCE dance and VCE VET dance in year 11 and 12. Molly continues her passion of working with children through her Bachelor of Early Learning and Primary school teaching and Monash University.

Ella Bergman

Teacher

Ella is 19 years old and currently studying Certificate IV in Allied health assisting at Holmesglen university. She completed year 12 last year as well as VET dance units 1/2 and 3/4. 2 years ago Ella had the privilege of being apart of Transit Dance company, helping her gain more knowledge in contemporary dance. Ella has been dancing since she was 4 and is competent in all styles, lyrical being her strongest. Ella has been a teacher at KFSD for the past 3 years and is loving it.

Georgia Chalfon

Teacher

Georgia has been dancing since the age of 3. She has trained in jazz, ballet, contemporary, lyrical, hip hop, tap, acrobatics and contortion. She has received singing lessons for 8 years. Georgia fell in love with musical theatre as a young teenager and has been working hard towards her goal of becoming a professional music theatre performer ever since. She is currently completing her Diploma of Music Theatre under the direction of Andrew Hallsworth at Patrick Studios Australia. She loves getting to share her passion of performing with so many amazing students at Kim Factor!

Tina Pyrcz

Teacher

Tina is an experienced dance teacher who has had 14 years of dance training under her belt. Starting dancing at age 3, she has trained in various styles of ballet, jazz, lyrical and contemporary. Tina has attained RAD's highest vocational examination 'Solo Seal', as well as achieved a perfect study score of 50 in VCE VET Dance. Tina is also a recent graduate of Monash University and is working as a primary school teacher. She endeavours to foster a positive learning environment where all children can enjoy the benefits of movement.

Rebecca Rawlins

Teacher

Miss Beck has been dancing since she was 2 years of age and has trained in a variety of dance styles including Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Tap, Jazz, Ballroom. New Vogue and Latin.

She has competed her dance exams through ATOD (Australian Teachers of Dance) and ADS (Australian Dancing Society), has completed the Acrobatic Dance Teacher syllabus through the Acrobatic Dance Association and has a Bachelor of Education majoring in Dance, Drama, Theatre Studies and Health. To expand her dance knowledge, Miss Beck travelled to New York in 2018 to attend the Dance Teacher Summit where she took classes from Mia Michaels, Travis Wall, Tricia Miranda and Tessandra Chavez.

Miss Beck has a lot of experience in competitions; both as a competitor and as a choreographer. She has represented Victoria in the ATOD Australasian Scholarships and has travelled to Los Angeles and Singapore to perform. Her choreography has been performed in competitions around Australia, USA and South Africa. In 2017, she was awarded ‘Best Choreographer’ at the Hall of Fame Dance Challenge Nationals in Orlando Florida, and in 2018 was awarded the ‘Australian Dance Teacher of the Year’ award for her dance teaching work in Primary and High Schools.

Rowena Suthon

Teacher

Rowena started ballet at the age of 3, dancing many times with the Royal NZ Ballet company during her studies. She completed exams in RAD and NZ syllabus up to solo diploma level with Distinction and danced in National competitions. Rowena went on to study at the NZ School of Dance while also obtaining a Musical theatre Diploma. She has performed in musicals in Adelaide, England and NZ, most recently playing the role of Meg in Phantom of the Opera. Rowena has a vast knowledge of the RAD syllabus with over 15 years teaching experience.

Maddy Cain

Teacher

Breht Wilson

Admin

Breht has been dancing for over 10 years, growing up in Perth she’s competed in multiple styles including jazz, tap, ballet and music theatre across WA. Breht moved to Melbourne to study performing arts full time at Patrick School of the arts and just graduated with a diploma in Musical Theatre. Breht is loving being involved in the dance school environment again as an administrator at Kim Factor School of Dance.