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.

Georgie Goater

Dancer

Georgie has been dancing with Touch Compass since 2012.

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.