About - Tahnee and the Treehouse

MISS TAHNEE

Dancer, Mother and Encourager

In a successful career as a dancer, Miss Tahnee has made her way around the world….Paris, London, Barcelona, Hong Kong.

During her global travels she met her gorgeous hubby, Lars, in Sweden. They married in London and decided to move Down Under to start a family.

Miss Tahnee started teaching dance and she soon became the Director of the much acclaimed Petites Department at BRENT STREET. During this time she became increasingly aware of the pressures put on young children to compete and perform. She believed that dance should be fun, with the purpose of building confidence and self worth.

10 years ago Miss Tahnee moved her own growing family up north to sunny Queensland. She decided to build a dance school with a difference.

TAHNEE AND THE TREEHOUSE, with its unique and extraordinary way of teaching dance, was born.
Miss Tahnee’s passion for developing young creative minds without pressure to compete, became its cornerstone. The Treehouse was created to provide a nurturing, happy place where children could learn about dance, movement and music. The ultimate outcome for every child, with this new way of teaching, is the power of belief in themselves and their own creative imaginations.

“ All little children love music and rhythm, and I discovered the key is to foster, nurture and encourage that love at the earliest age possible. As soon as they can stand most babies start to move to music. Being so young, it is a lot harder to engage the attention and ‘teach’ them about dance, than it is for older children. So I developed a method of combinations, and simple repetitions that have been tried and tested. The little ones in my classes hop off their mums laps and cannot help themselves but to join in the fun.

My motivation is to give the gift of dance and movement to ALL children.

There are a lot of parents who want something different in a dance class. They want their kids to be nurtured, ultimately and indefinitely. And they want to see them have FUN!

In the long run, creating a fundamental love and appreciation for Dance will prepare little people to make it an integral part of their lives. And this is the perfect thing to take from childhood into the adult world.”

Why a Treehouse?

Because a Treehouse is where stories are told, where imagination begins.
It is a place for kids, built by kids and loved by kids.
It is a secret place and a place they can call their own.
Inside a Treehouse a child will soar on creative wings, they will play, relate to others and they will believe they can fly to wherever their imaginations will take them.

Because there is a dance in everyone. And so classes at Tahnee and The Treehouse are different because they bring out of each and every child, their own unique dance.
A Treehouse Kid will learn about music, rhythm and dance through discovery and creativity rather than structure and rules.
Dance is universal.
It is collaborative and uniting.
It is freedom of expression.
And it is, and should be FUN!
This is how WE dance, this is how we ALL should dance.

Every child should be allowed to express themselves in their own unique way and there is a powerful rhythm inside each and every child. It is important for them to feel free and safe enough to express it.

Dance and music go together, you really can’t have one without the other. Dance and music are gifts from the universe, and together they will make you move, make you dream, and most important, make you feel alive, if you open yourself to their beauty and wonder.

Of course they do!
Why should girls have all the fun!
And dance has moved with the times. Dance for boys is now cool, but at the same time it keeps boys in touch with their feelings and their heart.
Dance is encouraging boys to be expressive and emotive. Dance for Boys is here to stay.
These are the tag lines and the essence of Tahnee and The Treehouse, and these things will go a very long way to take the free happy child that lives within us all, into adulthood and beyond.

TO INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO REALISE THE MAGIC WITHIN THEMSELVES USING THE FREEDOM OF DANCE, MOVEMENT AND MUSIC.

* HEART OF WOMEN AWARD WINNER 2022 FOR CREATIVE ARTS *

Online Classes

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