Corinne Yee - Director/ Choreographer

Corinne trained in RAD ballet and NZAMD jazz from the age of seven. She began teaching and choreographing musicals and performances at fifteen. Corinne has danced in theatre performances, television commercials and music videos and choreographed for full-scale commercial shows and music awards in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1993 she taught dance and choreographed performances at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in England.

In 1999 Corinne passed her Advanced 3 and Solo Seal American Jazz Dance examinations with Honours. She was awarded the Mary Evers Memorial Scholarship as the most deserving Advanced student in New Zealand.

Corinne is the Director and Choreographer of Jazzaddict Australasia and the Founder of 'Top Tots' (early learning arts education for preschoolers). She co-developed the Broken Beat Dance Syllabus (BBDS) and was a Founding Director of the Australasian Dance Association. Corinne was also a previous committee member of the Northern Dance Network in New Zealand.

Corinne is currently the Principal and Director of the Victoria Phillips Academy of Dance, the flagship dance studio for Jazzaddict, which is home to over 1,000 students specialising in jazz and hip hop dance.

A number of Corinne’s students have consistently been awarded top mark scholarships for New Zealand and Australasia for their examinations.

Corinne continues in her passion to develop and promote dance education programmes to the dance sector.