Debbie has been teaching at BJ's for 3 years and we are proud to say started in BJ's medal classes and teaching program. Debbie is a qualified FATD Student Teacher & Dancesport Level O Coach.

Debbie teaches all styles and is available Monday to Saturday at Melton (except Wednesday). Wednesday Debbie is available at Fitzroy.

Barbara has been dancing for long time and is a very experienced social dancer and ex-dancesport competitor. Barbara is a ADS student Teacher and Dancesport Coach.

This is probably why the Sunday Tea Dance is so popular with our clientele. Barbara's attentions to detail and need to ensure the people she associates with are happy make her so popular.

Tessa has been a student of BJ's for many years. She started in the Friday Night Medal Classes and soon developed an interest in competition dancing.

Tessa also qualified as a FATD Student Teacher and a Dancesport Coach through the BJ's Teachers Program. While successfully studying at University (psychology), Tessa has become a very popular teacher with all her students.

One of the studio proprietors. Rebecca is a qualified Level 2 coach and hold Licentiates in all dancesport styles.

Rebecca adjudicates on national panels throughout Australia.

Passionate about Dance, Dancesport and New Vogue. Bob is a major contributor to the development of competitive dancing in Australia.

Bob is only available for competitive couple lessons at very select times. Please contact us 03 9415 7979 to organise an appointment.

Zac is our Friday night DJ and is currently studying to become a student teacher.

Maria is a FATD student teacher and Dancesport coach. Marias enthusiasm and love of dance is so infectious. She is extremely popular as a teacher with all students at all levels.

Maria runs the babies classes, kids classes and teens classes on a Friday Night, they (and we at BJ's) all adore her.

Steven is one of the studio proprietors and holds several licentiate qualifications.

Steven and coaches at both studios.

Smooth, graceful and full of old world charm this style is as popular as it has ever been. It comprises of several rhythms that are then split into 5 dances. The Modern Waltz, Slow Foxtrot, Tango, Viennese Waltz and Quickstep.

In the 1920s this style was developed (and basic techniques perfected) to enable this style to remain a standard to which most partner dancing styles aspire. Large dance floor, a keen sense of timing with a good understand of basics will have you moving around the dance floor in a few weeks.

This style is separated into the following categories:

Standard includes Waltz, Slow Foxtrot, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Quickstep. Latin includes Samba, Rumba, Cha cha cha, Paso Doble & Jive. New Vogue includes the fifteen championship New Vogue dances.

This is very much a performance-based dance style usually danced a competitions throughout the world.

The Next Lets Dance Competition

A very popular style of dance danced at halls and venues around Australia.

With hundred of dances to learn and plenty of versions of them to go around it's a never ending job just keeping up with it!

The dances are usually easy to learn and we will have you dancing in no time.

Is the name given to the 15 championship sequence dances. Medal dances at BJ's include all 15, plus a selection of old time and social dances.

This style accommodates all levels and is very easy to start and progress through. It is a cousin of Oldtime and Social Dancing. Very much the middle of the road between the two styles.

The music is becoming more top 40 as a wider variety of popular artists are producing music catering to the dancing scene.

This style is always popular as it is fast paced and the music is always modern and top 40.

The dances are traditionally progressive (meaning changing of partners is required). This is also why it is so popular with  beginners, as they can quickly pick up the steps and  dance with experienced partners.

The commercial name given to competitive modern ballroom in the 1990s. It's similar to Modern Ballroom, but with restrictions on choreography and rhythm.

It is danced as a part of the Dancesport competition scene and is affectionately known as the grand style of competition dancing. Two people moving as one unit - the couple need to use balance and natural laws of physics to move with varying degrees of speed around the room.

This is one of the most popular social dances in Melbourne nowadays, as there are plenty of Latin clubs, and plenty of great Latin dancers! The cutting edge of development for Salsa music is in Fitzroy and Sydney, both areas with large Latin communities.

Salsa works on the basis of Mambo - a pattern of six steps danced over eight counts of music. At this school, we call it Salsa if the pattern of steps begins on the "one" beat of the music, and Mambo if it starts on the "two" beat. Salsa is a more contemporary name for the same step pattern, and came about when dancers started mixing up Mambo with Ballroom Cha cha cha steps.