OUR STORY
TEACHERS
Sarah Max Mackenzie
Artistic Director and Founder of Tilt Performing Academy. Sarah grew up, from the age of 3, dancing at the Conroy Dance Centre in Brisbane, Australia. She attended Conroy Performing Arts College in 2011 – mid 2012, one of Australia’s most highly esteemed Performing Arts institutions. In mid 2012, Sarah travelled to Hong Kong to teach at Glenda Allan Dance Academy. In 2013, she came to Singapore and has been teaching dance to date. Sarah holds her Teachers Diploma from ComDance in Classical Ballet, Modern Jazz and Tapping. She also has an extensive teaching background in Contemporary, Lyrical, Song and Dance, Musical Theatre, Hip Hop and Acrobatics. Sarah has trained children for exams, competitions, and performances as well as mentored many students for their own teaching qualifications. Her aim in teaching is to educate as many children about the art of performing and nurture their love of dance with the most up to date and current teaching methods and creative choreography!
Pek Yue Ling
Yue Ling started dancing at the age of 8 at Attitude Performing Arts Studio. She was a competitive dancer and received many awards throughout her years as an amateur performer. She has travelled overseas and trained with a variety of dance companies. She is in the midst of completing a Bachelor of Arts, Majoring in Dance at Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, yet has returned to Singapore awaiting the reopening of the boarders to Australia. She is excited to have the opportunity whilst here in Singapore to share the knowledge she has acquired form her studies all around the world!
Edna is a recent graduate of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She started her dance journey at the age of 3, doing ballet at Dancepointe Academy. Over the years, she had opportunities to travel overseas to places such as London and Barcelona for dance competitions and immersion programmes. At the age of 15, she decided to pursue dance professionally and enrolled into City Ballet Academy and later Luminous Dance Academy where she could learn ballet under reputable teachers such as Xia Hai Ying and Bertrand Berena. She enrolled into Nanyang at 17 to pursue dance as a full time dance student and have since worked with many different choreographers and teachers such as Rosa Park, Ezekiel Olivera, Hwa Wei An and many others. After graduating she had the opportunity to dance in National Day Parade and currently is a freelance performer and dance teacher.