Rodney Bell
Founding Dancer and Tutor
Rodney has been dancing professionally since 1995, and has been recognised with a variety of industry awards including: the Attitude Artistic Achievement Award (2016) and the Arts Access Aotearoa Artistic Achievement Award (2017).
Dancer
Duncan, a talented actor and our resident drummer, started with Touch Compass in 2011.
Alisha Mclennan Marler
Dancer and Support Tutor
Alisha joined Touch Compass in 2002. Her talents have been recognised with an AIMES award (2011), to study aerial dance in the UK, and the TV One Attitude Artistic Achievement Award (2013).
Suzanne Cowan
Dancer and Choreographer
Suzanne has been an integral part of the Touch Compass performance team since 1999. Suzanne has performed internationally with UK-based CandoCo dance company, won the inaugural Attitude TV Art Award and then the Supreme Award (in 2008) and ....
Julie Van Renen
Dancer
Julie graduated from UNITEC, with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance, in 2003and has been busy busy ever since ...
Lusi Faiva
Founding Dancer
Lusi is a founding member of Touch Compass. She is the star of the 2014 DanceBox short film “Mr and Mrs Jones”.
Sierra Diprose
Dancer and Support Tutor
Sierra has been performing with Touch Compass since the start of 2016 and, as well as dance, works as a support tutor for our youth and community classes. Sierra is also working on her own project, called the #thedoalittledanceproject.
Helene Burgstaller
Helene came to New Zealand 10 years ago to work as a vet. After realising that life had more to offer, she decided to study Contemporary Dance at Unitec.
Emilia Rubio
Dancer - Support tutor
Emilia hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was a Professional Dancer mainly in contemporary dance for fourteen years.
Samantha Wood-Rawnsley
Dancer and Support Tutor
After graduating from Unitec in 2009 with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance, Samantha began to fly.