OUR MISSION
To facilitate Maximum accessibility to and best experience with the art of dance for children and young adults. We strive to provide versatile learning Opportunities of uncompromising quality and Excellence for recreationally and professionally oriented dance students. To Motivate and Inspire our dancers to Achieve their absolute personal best.
ABOUT US
Maximo Dance Studio was founded in 2004 by its current director and principal choreographer Ms Olga Lissovskaia. The studio is named in honour of one of the greatest Russian ballerinas of all time - Ekaterina MAXIMOva. "Dance is my life", Ekaterina once said, and so is ours, here at Maximo, a one of kind dance school located right in the heart of Woolloongabba, Brisbane.
We are thrilled to give our students the opportunity to enter exciting world of dance. From early on the littlest of our dancers begin to learn vital skills in our unique Prep Dance program. The program was designed in house, is perfect foundation for any future dance activities and excellent for children’s overall physical development. On completion of Prep Dance program, students graduate with excellent foundations for and are confident to start ballet or any other style of dance as part of the next level program.
We use world renown authentic and traditional Russian School of ballet method - the Russian Vaganova method of teaching classical ballet. Teaching program is largely adapted to the Australian standards to equip our students to local expectations. All of our staff have a wealth of teaching, performing and industry experience with local and international knowledge of systems and practices. We believe in open communication and can provide comprehensive advice to ensure student’s success in this extracurrical activity or pre-professional development. We provide safe, disciplined, productive learning environment and caring culture to enable achievement, confidence, results whilst instilling the love for the art of dance.
If dance becomes a passion, we do our best to guide our dancers through thorns of professional training to becoming bright new stars of the stage.
With uncompromising quality of our dance education, we aim for results and development of every one of our students’ talents and abilities.
OUR STORY
Maximo Dance Studio has over 35 years of history behind its present form. It was established in Brisbane by Ms Olga Lissovskaia, its current Director and Principal Choreographer in 2004. It is a result of Ms Olga’s long journey and history of teaching classical ballet. Ms Olga operated her own studio overseas for over 20 years, which still exists to this day under another management. Her studio was recognised as the top finest dance education organisations in the city and one of the best in the state. Students who wished to enrol in Ms Olga’s studio had to go through an audition. Ms Olga received wide recognition for her work, awards at local and national competitions and most importantly inspired her students to become professional dancers and dance teachers who continue to exhibit the results of her work to this day.
After moving to Australia Ms Olga wanted to continue her passion of helping children realise their dreams at the art of dance. She had a vision of a dance education facility where Australian children would receive top quality extracurricular dance education or those aspiring to become professional dancers to have the opportunity to take advantage of learning Classical Ballet through authentic Vaganova method. Ms Olga envisioned the studio to be the place to share the wealth of her knowledge and experience with future generations. Other teaching staff undergo profound selection process to match studio's high standards.
THE VAGANOVA METHOD
This is the unique method we use to teach ballet. Books have been written about it and yet more needs to be and will be written, but it is not our aim here. We will be brief and just say that it is an extraordinary and scientifically proven method. One cannot mistaken a dancer of Vaganova method training. They stand out from the crowd by their unparalleled poetic spirituality, exceptional harmonious plasticity of movement, and at the same time the “iron” aplomb of the body, with their overall nobility and excellence of technical and performing skills.
We are the only dance school in Brisbane that offers authentic teaching in this famous method. It is an internationally renowned progressive training program that has produced some of the best dancers in the world. Our study program is an international version of Vaganova System, which has been carefully tailored to local Australian practices.