tribe tween
“The more you embrace the weird crazy things about yourself…. The more you find your tribe”
A creative space for ages 9–12 to explore dance, art and wellness. Our programs support confidence, creativity and wellbeing at this important stage.
Dance classes build technique, strength and performance skills, while art classes encourage expression through a range of creative mediums.
Based in Lake Macquarie, The Tribe Collective is a supportive community where every child can thrive.
Performing Arts
Tween Jazz
4.00 pm Wednesdays
4:45 PM Thursdays
Our Tween Jazz classes combine technique, style and performance in a fun, high-energy environment. Dancers build strength, coordination and confidence while learning kicks, turns, leaps, isolations and dynamic choreography.
Each class focuses on technique, conditioning, musicality and performance skills, helping Tweens grow into expressive and versatile dancers.
With supportive, experienced teachers, students are encouraged to challenge themselves, develop their individuality and shine on stage.
Tween Contemporary
4:45pm Wednesdays
4:00pm Thursdays
Our Tween Contemporary/Lyrical classes blend technique, artistry and emotional expression in a supportive, inspiring environment. Dancers explore fluid lyrical movement alongside the strength and control of contemporary dance.
Students develop skills in floorwork, turns, leaps, extensions, improvisation and storytelling, while building flexibility, coordination, core strength and confidence.
Each class encourages dancers to connect with music, express emotion and move with intention—growing into strong, expressive and versatile performers.
Tween Ballet
4:00 PM Tuesdays
Our Tween Ballet classes build strong technique, confidence and artistry in a supportive, encouraging environment. Dancers develop foundations in posture, turnout, flexibility, coordination, musicality, barre and centre work.
Blending classical training with creative movement, students grow in strength, discipline and self-expression while enjoying the beauty of ballet.
With personalised guidance from experienced teachers, Tweens are supported to progress at their own pace and feel confident in their abilities.
Tween Hip Hop
4:45 PM Wednesdays
5:30 PM Thursdays
Our Tween Hip Hop classes are high-energy, fun and confidence-building, perfect for dancers who love music, rhythm and style. Classes blend commercial hip hop, street styles and freestyle foundations.
Dancers develop skills in grooves, isolations, footwork, coordination, musicality and performance, while building confidence and their own unique style.
With supportive, experienced teachers, Tweens are encouraged to express themselves, challenge their skills and thrive in an upbeat, positive environment.
Tween Musical Theatre
4pm Wednesdays
Our Tween Musical Theatre classes are perfect for young performers who love singing, dancing and acting. This high-energy class builds confidence, creativity and stage presence through triple-threat training.
Students explore character work, vocal technique, choreography and performance skills, bringing scenes and songs to life in a fun, supportive environment.
With experienced teachers guiding each class, Tweens grow in confidence, teamwork and self-expression while developing strong performance foundations.
Tween Acrobatics, Silks and Hoops
6:15 Thursdays
Our Tween Acrobatics classes combine dance, gymnastics and acro techniques in a safe, supportive environment. Dancers build strength, flexibility, coordination and control through skills like tumbling, balances and tricks.
Students can also explore aerial elements such as silks and lyra, developing agility and confidence while learning exciting, dynamic skills.
With Acrobatic Arts certified teachers, Tweens are supported to progress safely while building technique and a love for movement.
Tween Tap
5:30pm Tuesdays
Our Tween Tap classes are perfect for dancers who love rhythm, musicality and making noise with confidence. This upbeat class blends traditional tap foundations with modern styles.
Students develop skills in shuffles, riffs, footwork, timing and rhythmic patterns while building coordination, precision and performance skills.
With supportive, experienced teachers, Tweens grow in confidence, musicality and style in a fun, high-energy environment.
Tween Dance Crew (Audition Only)
Our Tween Dance Performance crew is the next step to regular classes here at Tribe. Our teams perform at a variety of events around the Hunter every year including Relay For Life, Stars Of Newcastle, Winter Fair, Carols at Speers Point and local dance competitions just to name a few.
Entry is via in class audition. Please speak to our friendly reception staff about trying our Comp Team on for size!
Private Vocal Lessons
Our Private Vocal Lessons are designed to help young singers build confidence, develop healthy technique and discover their unique voice. These one-on-one sessions are tailored to each student’s goals in a supportive, encouraging environment.
Students develop skills in breath control, pitch, tone, diction and performance, while building confidence in solo singing and musical expression.
With personalised guidance from experienced coaches, Tweens are supported to grow at their own pace and shine in every performance
Private Piano Lessons
Our Private Piano Lessons offer a fun, supportive and personalised way for young musicians to learn and grow. Suitable for beginners through to developing players, each lesson is tailored to the student’s goals and pace.
Students build skills in note reading, rhythm, technique, scales, chords and musical expression while developing confidence and a love of music.
With guidance from experienced teachers, Tweens are supported to progress, explore different styles and enjoy learning in a one-on-one environment.
TRIBE CREATIVE
Tween Art Club
5pm Tuesdays (1.5 Hours)
Our Tween Art classes inspire creativity, confidence and imagination in a fun, supportive environment. Students explore a range of mediums including drawing, painting, mixed media and design.
Each class focuses on skill-building, creative thinking and self-expression, while developing techniques such as composition, shading, colour and texture.
With guidance from experienced teachers, Tweens are encouraged to experiment, build confidence and create artwork they feel proud of.
Performing Arts
Tween Jazz
4.00 pm Wednesdays
4:45 PM Thursdays
Jazz dance is an ever-evolving dance form with deep roots from African slave dance up to 1930s New York society. Our talented jazz teachers will impart in your child technique and rhythm, as well as body isolations and step progressions to inspire their early love of jazz dance.
Our Tween Jazz Class covers a range of different Jazz styles in their programmes including jazz/funk, broadway jazz and technical jazz.
Tween Contemporary
5:30pm Wednesdays
4:00pm Thursdays
Contemporary dance combines elements of ballet, modern and jazz dance forms to create a hybrid, free-flowing yet technically balanced dance. Floor work, improve and fall and recovery skills will all be studied with your child.
Tween Ballet
4:00 PM Tuesdays
Ballet forms the basis of technique in all dance styles. Junior ballet is a great chance for your child to start to develop their technique and poise from a young age with passionate professionals who will guide them as their love of dance is ignited. The tribe uses the Australian Institute of Classical Dance Syllabus. Students may choose to take the exam or just for fun!
Tween Hip Hop
4:45 PM Wednesdays
5:30 PM Thursdays
Hip-hop is a street style form of dance that is distinguished by its high energy, freestyle nature. Recently- the game Fortnite has brought Hip Hop to the forefront with moves like “Floss” “Elecro Shuffle” and “Hype” being practiced in lounge rooms all across the country.
Your child will learn dance street-style whilst being encouraged to develop their own taste for freestylin’ executed with movement and technique. A firm favourite with boys & girls alike- Hip Hop is the perfect class for high energy moves with a laid back teaching style that encourages the fun.
Tween Cheer
4:45 PM Wednesdays
Has your little one been to a football game & wanted to be just like the girls on the field? Our Cheer classes are run by cheerleaders who now their way around a set of pom poms! Our cheer classes at The Tribe are a hybrid of Pom & American Cheer Dance including dance, tricks & lifts to train the next generation of sports cheerleaders!
Tween Musical Theatre
4:45pm Wednesdays
Musical theatre will instill in your child a sense of wonder for the combined arts and a passion for dancing, singing, acting and dialogue training as a triple threat story-telling method. Your child will study real songs from musicals as dance, vocal training and acting are taught by our professional ADTC musical theatre teachers.
The Tribe Musical Theatre classes stage their very own full length junior musical that is taught in class & performed at the end of Term 3 & also appear in our end of year concerts. The Musical of choice is revealed to our musical theatre classes in Term 1 which always has anticipation & excitement around it for our Musical Theatre students
Tween Acrobatics, Silks and Hoops
6:15 Thursdays
Acrobatics training stems from acro dance techniques to circus and gymnastics training. Your child will learn agility, flexibility and poise in a safe environment, as their acrobatics classes are designed to instill a love of jumping, flying and tumbling from a young age.
Come fly with us! If your little one is inspired by the Greatest Showman they will love our silks and lyra hoop class! Promoting strength, agility and flexibility our students love the challenges of mastering silks and hoops and delight in the feeling of gracefully executing the skill set from the rafters.
Our teachers are Acrobatic Arts certified and students have the option to take Acrobatic Arts Grading if they wish.
Tween Tap
4.00pm Wednesdays
Tap Dance is an essential for any child wishing to be a well rounded dancer or who has a keen interest in musical theatre. Our Tap teachers are fully qualified in the LGTDA Tap Syllabus & students can undertake exams or tap just for fun. There is nothing quite like making music with your feet & our students love the high energy format of our tap programme!
Tween Dance Crew
Our Tween Dance Performance crew is the next step to regular classes here at Tribe. Our teams perform at a variety of events around the Hunter every year including Relay For Life, Stars Of Newcastle, Winter Fair, Carols at Speers Point and local dance competitions just to name a few.
Entry is via in class audition. Please speak to our friendly reception staff about trying our Comp Team on for size!
Private Vocal Lessons
Tribe offers private vocal lessons to students from the ages of 6 and up. In your one on one lesson you will work with your teacher on vocal technique and breathing, performance skills, basic music theory and musicality. Our vocal students perform at their own mid year recital and also at our end of year spectacular. We also prepare our students for auditions and work with them on their chosen repertoire.
Private lessons have limited availabilities. Times are available on our enrolment portal.
Private Piano Lessons
Tribe offers private piano lessons for students aged 6 and up. Our tutors are experienced in teaching beginning level right through to pre professional in a supportive environment. Students will learn music theory and practical piano technique during their individual 1 on 1 weekly lesson.
Private lessons have limited availabilities. Times are available on our enrolment portal.
TRIBE CREATIVE
Picasso Tween
5:00pm Tuesdays
For the budding Picasso with an interest in the fine arts. Our Picasso classes explore a diverse range of art mediums including paint, sketching, sculpture and mixed media.
Each term our Picassos are introduced to two different art styles to work on over a five week period from our qualified fine arts teachers.
These classes encourage creativity, skills development and a lifelong appreciation for art.
Wellness
Tween Yoga and Mindfulness
This beautifully crafted 60 Minute experience allows children to check in with their bodies and emotions while learning yoga practices that will set them up for strength, flexibility and emotional regulation for life!
Here at the Tribe- the world melts away while our instructor leads our little yogis on an adventure into mindfulness and centredness in a warm nurturing and encouraging environment.
Our class starts with a breathing and mindfulness practice before leaning into gentle beginner yoga poses and ends with a guided mediation.
Tweens learn self regulation strategies and how to “check in” with themselves when they are feeling big emotions.
Kidpreneurs Tween
5:30pm Wednesdays
The world sure has changed since us as parents were younger. In the digital age there is a plethora of opportunities for making money outside of the regular “finish school, go to university and work for someone else” route.
But not all of us are cut from the same cloth.
There are literally thousands of case studies of young people crushing it in business from a young age (Just like our Kidpreneurs Ambassador Glitter Girl) but how did they do it?
Kidpreneurs is a course dedicated to teaching the fundamentals of Entrepreurship in a dynamic environment that sees our young students conceptualise, research and launch a business across a semester.
They will learn he basics of how to set up their own business, research interest, design their logo as well as supply chains, marketing and finance in a step by step lesson plan with homework tasks.
There will be inspirational talks and Q and A’s with successful Kidpreneurs along the way and lots of hands on practical advice from our Kidpreneur tutors.
Our entrepreneurs will learn the importance of resilience, “Flearning” (Lessons from any set backs that help propel us forward and skills that will last a lifetime that can be applied to their own business in the future- should they choose to run their own company as their “main gig” or have a successful “side hustle” as they pursue university or 9-5 (It sure beats working at Mc Donalds right?!)
The 15 week course ends with a “Shark Tank” style presentation of each of our Entrepreneurs business ideas for our parents and friends.
We are ONLY accepting 20 Kidpreneurs per semester intake. Enrol online to secure your spot for Terms 3-4 2024!
Mind Ninjas Tween
5:00pm Tuesdays
Here at Tribe we totally recognise that anxiety and emotional dysregulation is a massive problem amongst our youth.
Mind ninja is an immersive weekly class aimed at giving children the tools to foster self love, confidence and help manage feelings of anxiety and overwhelm in a nurturing environment.
Some of the life skills we cover are nervous system regulation, reframing negative thought patterns, strategies and tools for tricky social situations and flexible thinking.
This class is all about building confidence resilience and self soothing strategies while getting out children to connect with the magic that makes them uniquely themselves.
Using a wide range of modalities from somatic exercises, to meditation and mindfulness, craft and art therapies as well as journaling and connecting with other children in class the skill sets developed will last a lifetime… as will the friendships of like minded friends.
Students are given their very own Mind Ninja workbook to document their learnings and make notes of strategies that work for them when life gets a little much.
As an added bonus we also include a q and a session per term with parents with our wonderful parenting expert to address any challenges parents may have as well!
Mind Ninjas is all about building confidence, connection and resilience to navigate the sometimes choppy waters of life.
Swiftie School – a 10 week Immersive
4:30-5:30 Thursdays Term 3 (week 5-10) and term 4 (Weeks 1-5)
Theres a reason Tay Tay is such a force in Pop Culture and that’s because not only is she a brilliant songwriter- she also is a fantastic role model for young girls everywhere.
We have taken Taylors music and her philosophies to create a 10 week empowerment programme for girls and boys to learn life lessons according to the gospel that is Swift!
Here’s what you can expect:
Week 1- Enchanted to Meet You
This week the clan get to know each others stories because we believe a great class has its roots in friendship.
We discuss what makes a great friend and explore the qualities that go into making any connection meaningful and long lasting. The class task this week is friendship bracelets to share amongst their fellow swifties as well as filming a video introduction that we will make into a montage that will be posted to the Swiftie class app so that all classmates can learn a little about their classmates before the next time we meet!
Week 2- ME!
This week we ask…. What is so special about me? We ask our swifties to ask that question of themselves and of others close to them so they can build their “Toolbox of Tricks”….. a personally decorated box that holds a whole heap of positive traits about themselves they can keep at home and open to draw on when they need a reminder of just how great they are.
Week 3- Shake It Off
This week we chat resilience and how to cope when tough situations arise. What happenes when Im anxious? Upset? Unmotivated? We workshop strategies to deal with the feelings of doubt and fear that may come up when a person or situation challenges us.
We take our Swifties “out of their comfort zone” with a rigorous cheer routine (with pom poms of course) to Shake It Off.
Week 4- Bad Blood
How do we deal when people are unkind to us? Do we just accept it? What is a boundary and how do we put it in place?
How can we resolve conflict or make the decision to disengage? What things can we put in place to give ourselves a break from the drama? Theres lots to unpack this week!
This week we get super clear on our non negotiables on how we want to be treated- how we treat ourselves and how we would like others to treat us with our Boundary Bibles
Week 5- You Need To Calm Down
This week we look at nervous system regulation. Somatic exercises, mindfulness and mediation all help get us back to a calm state when we are flooded emotionally.
This week we explore beginner yoga and mediation that can be easily repeated at home and engage in some mindful mandala colouring pages.
Week 6- New Years Day
New Years Day is traditionally the time we set our goals for the new year but you can make ANY day new Years Day….. All you need to do is start!
This week we learn about the power in setting a Big Hairy Audacious Goal for yourself and learn how to break down a big idea into actionable steps.
We learn about planning and project management skills which can be used to reach a personal goal or even how to plan out a big assignment at school and not leave it to the night before.
Each swiftie gets a project goal template they can apply to numerous situations in their lives.
Week 7- Bejewelled
How to step out confident in your look every time. This week we get celebrity stylist Trish involved in creating a look for ourselves that defies fashion trends and what colours can do for our moods
Our very own jewel Annie will give tips on skin care and why Tik Tok makeup is NOT it and how to glow from the inside out.
Week 8- Champagne Problems
Sometimes we can get a little caught up in our worlds and todays lesson is all about gratitude for the life we have.
We look at the lives of children from around the world yesterday and today and compare that to our daily lives.
We talk about giving back, paying forward and how we can sit in gratitude for even the things that seem to go wrong. The lessons are there if we look hard enough.
Our activity this week is a champagne glass of gratitude to keep
Week 9- Lights Camera and Smile
This week the fabulous Megs Linton drops in to share her wisdom about what she calls the “perfection pandemic” and how filters and editing tools are skewing our view of beauty.
This is followed by a photo shoot with each of Taylors Eras as the backdrop where we encourage you to be authentically and beautifully you.
Week 10- Eras Par-tay and Grad Ceremony
We recap everything we have learned during our 10 week immersive for our parents and caregivers , share our favourite parts, and finish with a Taylor dance party to celebrate our time together.
All class participants are presented with a Swiftie School certificate and discount offers to Tribe classes in the future.
NB: Numbers are strictly capped for Term 3 so reserve your spot early to avoid disappointment.
Contact Us
ADDRESS
2/42 Harrison Street Cardiff
Mondays – 9:30 - 6:30
Tuesdays – 3:30 - 7:00
Wednesdays – 3:30 - 7:00
Thursdays – 3:30 - 6:30
Fridays – 9:00 - 11am
Saturdays – 9am - 11am
Sunday : Closed
Ph: 0249549477
FAQ
What age can my child start preschool dance?
Children can start preschool dance from age 2. Programs like Ready Set Dance and Ready Set Ballet are designed specifically for ages 2–5.
What is the best preschool dance program in Australia?
Ready Set Dance and Ready Set Ballet are widely recognised as Australia’s leading preschool dance programs, used by professional studios nationwide.
Does my child need experience before starting dance?
No experience is needed. Preschool dance focuses on confidence, movement and fun rather than technique.
Where can I find preschool dance classes in Lake Macquarie?
The Tribe Collective is the official Ready Set Dance and Ready Set Ballet location for Lake Macquarie, offering preschool dance and art classes.
About
The Tribe Collective is a children's dance, music and fine arts studio located in Cardiff NSW with an award-winning team dedicated to providing the best dance instruction whilst also empowering tomorrow's leaders.
Opening Hours
Mondays – 9:30 - 6:30
Tuesdays – 3:30 - 7:00
Wednesdays – 3:30 - 7:00
Thursdays – 3:30 - 6:30
Fridays – 9:00- 11am
Saturdays – 9am - 11am
Sunday : Closed
ADDRESS: 2/42 Harrison Street Cardiff NSW 2285
Email: hello@thetribecollective.com.au
Telephone: (02) 49549477
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