For The Love Of Dance

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For The Love Of Dance

A values-based dance studio in the Dandenong Ranges. We offer fun, safe, confidence-building classes for toddlers, kids, teens & adults.

No pressure, just movement with heart. Teaching humans, not numbers ✨

Tecoma | Cockatoo | Macclesfield

16/09/2026

THIS IS A JOKE. (Obviously? You can’t be too sure online)

We lost a great one today. Never complained, never broke down, just sat quietly by my feet doing his best while we planned, met, walked through, and slowly transformed this building around him. Four months of loyal service and not one sick day.

He's been replaced by industrial-grade heating and cooling running through the whole Ferny Creek General Store building — so no hard feelings. If you're dancing and someone's parent needs a different temperature while they wait, we've got you now. Comfy for everyone, every room, every day.

(Filmed this weeks ago and it's been sitting in my camera roll)

If you don't laugh you cry, and honestly this heater earned both. 🫡

15/09/2026

This isn't a serial killer's evidence wall. It's Saturday's Drama class.

Aeschylus is genuinely altruistic, Euripides is childish, Thanatos is bald.

Not something we googled. Something a room of teenagers teens came up with, character by character, straight onto the mirror.

We call it Role on the Wall. Every character from the text goes up. The class pulls them apart together, mannerisms, beliefs, the bits that never make it into the script. It's how you build a person before you try to become them on stage.

This is what Drama actually looks like here. Not memorising lines and hoping for the best. Getting properly curious about who someone is and why they do what they do.

Drama runs Saturdays. Younger kids can start with Junior Drama Club or Triple Talent, both on Mondays.

We're also looking at starting an adult performing arts class. If that's something you'd be into, message us and let us know.

14/09/2026

Next in our dance style series is our fabulous Burlesque class. Currently held in Cockatoo on a Tuesday night, it will be also held in Ferny Creek once the council approves our change of use permit.

It might not be what you're picturing. No stage numbers, no comparison, nobody watching how you move except you. Sometimes chairs, sometimes feathers, sometimes giant fans.

We get the most nervous messages before this class and the most fired up ones after.

Women walk in wondering if they're "allowed" to move like this. They walk out lit up, nothing to do with how they look, everything to do with how they feel.

Casual drop-in is open. No experience needed, no judgement waiting on the other side of the door.

Come remember what it feels like to move for yourself.

13/09/2026

Dress Up Week is back for 2026.

14th to 19th September, we want to see the CRAZIEST socks you own. Mismatched, glow in the dark, novelty prints, the lot. Go wild.

Bring a gold coin donation and every cent goes to a local charity.

No excuse needed, just the wildest socks you can find in the drawer.

11/09/2026

School holidays are coming, and we've got somewhere for all that energy to go.

Bookings open Monday for our School Holiday Sessions. Spots are limited and each session needs a minimum number booked to run, so don't sit on this one.

Dino Movement & Science — Preschool, 45 mins Wed 23rd Sept, 10am-10.45am Dinosaurs, movement and real science in one session. Stomping, roaring, and a bit of hands-on discovery. Current families $5 | New families $10

K-Pop Crew — Primary school age, 60 mins Tue 22nd Sept, 11.15am-12.15pm A high energy routine inspired by the K-pop movie everyone's talking about, plus extra moves kids have been asking for. Current families $10 | New families $20

Strength, Flex & Choreography — Inters and Teens, 2 hours Wed 23rd Sept, 11.30am-1.30pm Real training for dancers who want to work. Strength, flexibility, and a full choreography block. Current families $10 | New families $30

Forest Fantasy — Ages 5 to 10, 60 mins Tue 29th Sept, 11.15am-12.15pm A dance and activity session built around a forest world. A bit of dance, a bit of science, a bit of magic, and something to take home. Current families $5 | New families $10

Held at 1553 Burwood Hwy, Tecoma.

Current families get mates rates. New families, come see what the fuss is about.

Bookings open Monday. Get in quick, these fill fast.

If you have any other holiday requests let us know!! There are whispers of a hip hop session coming too...

09/09/2026

This place has been part of the Dandenong Ranges story for a long long time. Built in its current location in 1919, this building was a general store.

See the Wondoora estate brochure below, can you find the general store? (Picture curtesy of MDHHS collection/Lost Dandenongs)

Charles Jaensch is the first person we’ve found who ran it. His son Alex left the sciences to pursue his art of picture making and went on to build the Cameo Theatre in Belgrave. (More on this soon)

Over the next few weeks we're going to tell you how a heritage general store became a dance studio. This is part one.

08/09/2026

Tickets for every 2026 FTLOD concert go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday 9th September at 9.30am.

We break our concerts into Preschool, Middle School, Senior School and performing arts so that each concert is age appropriate and not 4 hours long!!

No rankings on the wall, no one commenting on how a kid’s body looks in a costume. A room full of families watching their students do something brave. That’s what these tickets are for.

Bookmark the link now so you’re ready: https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/fortheloveofdance

07/09/2026

Dance style spotlight: Acro

Acro started as gymnastics moves borrowed into dance, and it’s stuck around because it does something other styles don’t. It teaches kids to trust their own body.

Handstands. Cartwheels. Controlled falls. Every skill builds strength, flexibility and the kind of body awareness that shows up everywhere else in a kid’s life, not only on the dance floor.

Right now we run acro for kids only. When we open at Ferny Creek, we’d love to bring in an adult class too if there’s enough people keen. If that’s you, comment or send us a message. We’re building the timetable around what people are asking for.

02/09/2026

This space, the Ferny Creek General Store, sat empty too long, we’re bringing it back to life.

Ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, lyrical, Latin and ballroom, fitness. All ages, all under one roof. Classes stay small on purpose.

This building used to be the heart of the community. We’re about to make that true again.

Can’t wait to show you.

01/09/2026

Hip hop was never one style. It’s breaking, popping, locking, house, krumping, all born in different pockets of the same struggle, all built by kids with no studio, no funding, and every reason to make noise anyway. In 2024 breaking made it all the way to the Olympic stage in Paris. Fifty years from a housing complex rec room to the world’s biggest sporting event.

It started in a bombed-out borough because a bunch of kids refused to disappear. DJ Kool Herc threw a party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx on 11 August 1973 and accidentally invented a genre. He looped the “break,” the ten seconds of a record where the drums go off and everyone loses it, and stretched it into a whole song. The dancers who lost their minds on those breaks became the first breakers. B-boys and b-girls, named for the breaks they danced to.

That’s the lineage we’re stepping into tonight. Adults and kids, same energy, same floor. You don’t need to have grown up on this music to feel it. You just need to show up.

We have hip hop classes for both adults and kids, with beginner adult hip hop classes coming as soon as we move to Ferny Creek!

Address

1553 Burwood Highway, Tecoma
Melbourne, VIC
3160

Website

http://www.fortheloveofdance.com.au/

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