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The Love to Dance Academy has opened at another location from the Olde Court House Gallery . They have moved to a new store front location in down town Merritt. The new localtion is across from the Coldwater Hotel, 1976 Quilchena avenue just down from Carrie Ware and Company Chartered Accountants. They are a few doors down from the orthadontist, Dr Dan Degasso.


Lizette the company principal says it is now their only location.


About the Love to Dance Academy
LIZETTE NEL, Program Director
RAD Ballet, Merritt Dancing Divas and Line Dance Instructor
Lizette is a registered ballet teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) since 1969.

Lizette has 35 years teaching experience at her own ballet schools in Pretoria and other areas in Gauteng, South Africa, where her students excelled in ballet exams and won many trophies, bursaries and medals in dance competitions and championships.
 
While living in South Africa she was a lecturer at the University of Pretoria, teaching dance in the Movement Science department.  Lizette was also a freelance teacher for examiners’ on tour.
Lizette was a Badge Test examiner for the National Society of Dance Teachers (NSDT) and an adjudicator for various dance festivals, dance competitions and dance championships.   She was also the organiser and chairperson of the Eisteddfod of the Performing Arts in Pretoria for many years, (an annual 3 week, 3000 entrants event), and served on the RAD regional panel – Northern Gauteng, RSA.
Before relocating to Canada, Lizette was involved with most big ballet/dance companies in an effort to assist with survival through advertising, publications and promotions.
Lizette has been teaching dance in Merritt since 2012. She loves teaching and believes that dance and movement to music is therapy and the best exercise for body, spirit and soul. Through dance she aims to help each individual reach his or her full potential, no matter what the abilities and challenges may be. Under her directorship the Love To Dance Academy has grown from a small dance studio with 12 ballet students to a dance academy where students of all ages can attend classes in a variety of dance styles, do dance exams and medal tests, participate in dance festivals and dance competitions and have various performance opportunities.

Source Love to Dance.

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