Our Teachers
Shelley Ebeyer
Studio Director
Youth & Adult Tap, JFH, Ballet, Contemporary and Acrobatics
Shelley Ebeyer is the Director of Expression Dance School. She trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School (Canada), Elmhurst Ballet School (England) and at The McDonald College (Australia). There she was trained in Classical Ballet (R.A.D, Cecchetti and I.S.T.D), Modern, Jazz (I.S.T.D), Hip-Hop, Tap and Contemporary.
Shelley’s performance credits include ‘The Nutcracker’ with the Alberta Ballet Company, she has danced with one of Australia’s leading dance-in-education companies Darc Swan Dance Company where it saw her touring nationally performing onstage and at school’s Contemporary pieces by Director/ Choreographer Chris Jannides. Shelley has also performed in the pantomime ‘The Dancing Princesses’ in London, she was a dancer at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in the Tom Jones Concert, performed with Australian Idol Paulini Curuenavuli and has performed in numerous corporate and concert shows around Sydney.
Shelley has her A.R.A.D, R.A.D Teachers Certificate and is a Mentor for the Royal Academy of Dance.
Youth & Adult Tap
Youth Contemporary
Shayla Bromfield
Justine Vallejera, originally from Auckland, New Zealand, has grown up dancing at Expression Dance School since she was 7 years old, training in Classical Ballet, Contemporary and JFH. Here, she was a committed member of the Performance Group and completed her Grade 1 – Advanced 2 RAD Ballet exams with Distinctions.
She continued her studies at The McDonald College, graduating as a HSC Distinguished Achiever in Dance, ranking 1st in her cohort for Classical Ballet and Dance and being selected for Callback (state-wide showcase of outstanding HSC Dance performances). She was also a Senior member of the pre-professional ballet company, Premier State Ballet, starring in Cinderella and in Sleeping Beauty as the Canary Fairy.
She then attended Brent Street's Full-Time Contemporary Dance Program in 2022, where she obtained her Diploma of Dance (Elite Performance) majoring in Contemporary Dance. She was a featured soloist in her Graduation Showcase.
She now teaches Classical Ballet, Contemporary and Jazz and is pursuing her academic studies in Law and Business.
Gemma Rubin
EDS Administrator,
Youth Acrobatics & Jazz
Gemma Rubin, studied at Bradfield Senior College for the creative arts, graduating in 2023. She has directed and produced several short films and has taken up tertiary education at Sydney Film School and National Institute of the Dramatic Arts (NIDA). She started dancing at the age of 3 at Brent Street studios, later moving to Village Nation to start her competitive dance journey.
In 2017 Gemma joined Expression Dance School with a focus on Hip Hop, Jazz and Contemporary. She has competed in solo, duo/trio and group categories in various regional, national and international competitions and eisteddfods. This includes; Showcase, KAR, World Supremacy Battlegrounds and Hip Hop Internationals .
Gemma was invited to train with world renowned Australian Hip Hop crew Kookies ‘N Kream and placed 1st in Australia at Hip Hop Internationals in 2022, qualifying to compete in Phoenix, Arizona.
