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The fire sparks as Amy returns to Adelaide to share her passion for the arts...

Amy Berrisford, music theatre extraordinaire, has appeared in several productions across the world including Chicago, We Will Rock You, Cats, King Kong Live, Boy From Oz and Sweet Charity. She describes the highlight of her career as playing Velma Kelly in the recent Australian tour of Chicago. Amy says

“The Dream was real and I loved every single minute of it”

Amy was scheduled as Dance Captain for the upcoming tour of 9 to 5 The Dolly Parton Musical, which was set to open in Sydney in April but has been postponed with the hope to return in 2021. “It’s definitely challenging for our Industry right now but we are all trying to stay as positive as we can”. Amy continues “but I am so thankful this has given me the opportunity to come home and give back to the arts community”.

Berrisford will be returning back to Adelaide to teach regular classes at the Australian Company of Performing Arts.

Dance comes back to the ACPA Studios on the 1^st of June!!

We do have new policies and procedures to follow to ensure the safety of our students, their families and our staff. It’s time to prepare for our return and ensure we adhere to Safe Work Guidelines for COVID-19.

Please click here to download a copy of our Covid-19 Safety Guidelines.

We look forward to seeing you all soon.

Term 2 is a very important and exciting term as we prepare students for the Mid Year Show. Teachers will be delivering routine content online and building on this each week to not only advance the students skill set but keep them fit, active and engaged while at home.

Mid Year Show: It is with every intention that we will be holding our Mid Year Show. To what extent, is dependent on government regulations, so at this point we are continuing to best prepare all students and we will provide further information as soon as we can.

Invoice: the final balance doesn’t reflect the 10% discount and so we ask that before making any payments, you deduct this amount.

Timetable: Our updated timetable is available on our website

We appreciate your patience on this. Over the past week our team have been working hard to build an online class experience.

All students currently enrolled in Term 1 will have received an email on how to get set up. If you haven't, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ALL CLASSES GO ONLINE AS OF THIS MONDAY MARCH 30TH!

See you then!

We would like to start by saying a big thank you to all our staff, families and students for their continued support, gratitude and patience during this difficult time. There have been many policy and procedure changes put into place over the past fortnight on advise of the PM. Yesterday, tighter regulations were enforced and this will therefore mean we will officially be closing our doors until further notice.

As you can imagine, this is incredibly sad as we have never had to shut the studio in 23 yrs, however our team are working intensely on our online learning portal and will be in touch ASAP with our strategy going forward and to maintain interaction with all our amazing students.

Here is an update from management regarding COVID-19

13th March, 2020 - As you may be aware, COVID-19 is an infectious disease that originated in Hubei Province, China in late 2019, but has now become a widely spread concern.

Despite the fact that the number of COVID-19 cases in Australia are currently minimal, it is possible that this could change with time and therefore we feel it is important that our companies policies and procedures are outlined to avoid any concern.

As a performing arts provider to over 700 students and families, ACPA has implemented an action plan in accordance with the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare related specifically to Coronavirus or COVID-19.

Rehearsal & Performance Reminders
We are so excited as we only have 4 more sleeps! A reminder that the junior students are performing 3 times, once on Monday and twice on Tuesday
*this excludes Minnies, Boys class 1 & Junior Kids Hip Hop who are only performing once

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!  Please note that due to technical issues rehearsals may run late or not to schedule. To view all the Rehearsal Times, click the Read more link below.

Here is the Hair and Makeup requirements for our classes performing at our End of Year Productions (16, 17 and 18 Dec) - we can't wait!!!