About Studio V School of Dance in Heidelberg

VASSIE CATALANO – PRINCIPAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

BA-MS, Cert IV-HR, SFD, Ausdance & APRA member

Vassie fell in love with dancing at a young age and discovered what became a life long passion! While Classical Ballet was an integral part of Vassie’s dance training, Jazz was her real strength, winning the SFD Major Jazz Scholarship in 1998. 

At age 17 Vassie’s dedication to dance lead her to complete her Teachers Certificate with the Southern Federation of Dance in 1998.

INDUSTRY BACKGROUND: Vassie has worked at numerous dance schools in Melbourne, including the fulltime dance academy at Dance World 301, and featured in television commercials, TV programs, film clips, modeled for print magazines and toured nationally as a dancer and choreographer in hair show productions for Loreal.

BUSINESS ACCUMEN: A Bachelor of Media Studies and holding a Certificate IV in Human Resources from La Trobe University, Vassie spent over a decade working at Sensis (Telstra) in various HR, Sales Management and Customer Centre Managerial positions. 

Bringing both Industry and Business backgrounds together Vassie opened the doors of Studio V School of Dance in 2001. Over the last twenty years, Vassie has maintained her goal of offering all styles of dance to junior and senior students, by sharing her passion with others.

Over the years, Vassie has worked with many highly talented industry professionals and watched many of her students go on to pursue professional dance. Every member of the teaching faculty at Studio V is professionally trained and shares the same vision and purpose of professional level dance education.

In 2020 Studio V celebrated 20 years of dance. To celebrate this occasion, in September 2019, Studio V took 50 of its production students to Los Angeles to perform at Disneyland and Universal Studios and took part in classes within renowned LA Dance Studios.

We look forward to sharing the magic of dance with all young performance enthusiasts.