
Masterclass & Scholarships
Masterclasses are open to all level-appropriate dancers on the Sunshine Coast. Dancers applying for scholarship consideration must attend the masterclass as part of the evaluation process.
To be eligible for a scholarship dancer must be in academic grades 6-12, and an additional application form must be completed with all supporting documents submitted by February 21. The link to the full scholarship application will appear once this masterclass registration and payment have been completed.

Guest Instructor & Adjudicator
Racheal Prince received her early training at the Quinte Ballet School under Brian Scott before moving to Calgary to join the Alberta Ballet School’s Post Graduate Program. A recipient of the Ali Pourfarrokh Scholarship and the first graduate of the program to join Alberta Ballet, she spent four seasons performing works by George Balanchine, Emily Molnar, Margie Gillis, Christopher Wheeldon, Jean Grand-Maître, and others.
At 23, Racheal joined Ballet BC, where she danced for twelve acclaimed seasons, touring nationally and internationally to Sadler’s Wells, Movimentos Festival Wolfsburg, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Fall for Dance NYC, BAM, and the International Dance Festival Birmingham. Her performance highlights include Jorma Elo’s 1st Flash, Johan Inger’s Walking Mad and B.R.I.S.A., William Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure and Work Within Work, as well as works by Sharon Eyal and Ohad Naharin. In 2019/20, she served as Assistant Rehearsal Director, setting the ensemble work for Medhi Walerski’s Romeo and Juliet and Prelude.
Alongside her performance career, Racheal has become a widely respected teacher, mentor, and artistic facilitator. She has taught and coached across major training programs and professional communities, bringing a distinctive approach that elevates physical intelligence and embodied awareness. Racheal is known for nurturing dancers through both technical precision and personal artistic growth, supporting emerging artists as they refine their voices, confidence, and collaborative instincts.
Racheal is the Managing Artistic Director of Dance//Novella, where she co-leads the company’s creative vision, emerging artist initiatives, and educational programming. She is also the Managing Director of C-Space (Progress Lab 1422), a vital arts hub in East Vancouver supporting creation, collaboration, and community across the performing arts.

Photo: Michael Slobodian