This vision has been the driving force behind The Secret Garden of Dance and since then the owners successfully moved from a mobile dance service to a permanent location. With a team of
loyal friends and family, they spent four weeks converting a vacated office into a beautiful dance studio on Burke Road, Camberwell.

The Secret Garden of Dance offers their students a large selection of dance styles, all taught with a high level of experience and knowledge. There is also a strong commitment from all the dance teachers in improving the standard of their students, whilst ensuring that they have a thoroughly enjoyable experience at the same time.

What's Behind The Name?

The name ‘The Secret Garden of Dance' came from a few inspirations and ideas that the
founders shared. Firstly, they knew that their dance studio was going to be unique and would offer their students more than just dance instruction. The owners also felt that their students should not feel like they're entering a shop or a corporate workplace, where everything must be bought.

Instead it was to be a place that was welcoming and easy going, and the primary focus was on

having fun whilst learning to dance. So they felt the name itself would have to really stand out from the rest and would most likely not conform with ‘marketing standards'.

The owners also felt that dancing is a natural form of art and has deep ties with culture and history. Dancing itself should be an organic thing, something that has a living and breathing rhythm. This idea compelled them to find a name close to nature or something that was more down-to-earth.

All of these factors culminated into creating their dance studio name and that's how ‘The Secret Garden of Dance' came into existence!

More About Sanushka Ranasinghe

Sanushka's roots in dancing started from a very early age in his home country of Sri Lanka, where dancing was very much part of growing up.

Many years later in Melbourne, Sanushka took up both group and private lessons at various dance studios and at one stage won the best Ballroom and Latin dancer award in his category. He was soon offered a job as a teacher and it was at this point where he truly discovered his calling, as he found he had a genuine passion for teaching others and for sharing the joys of dance.

He also admits that Michael Jackson's dance and music has inspired him immensely and has helped him achieve his unique flavour of freestyle dancing. This flare for freestyle dancing is clearly seen as he has been passionately developing Salsa, Swing, Argentine Tango and Hip Hop at The Secret Garden of Dance. Sanushka has also been invited to perform at various functions and events and at one stage was invited to enter a dance competition, where he won the first 1st prize!

Besides his passion for freestyle dancing, Sanushka also has a strong musical background and he brings this experience to his lessons, developing his students timing and rhythm. He is also very passionate about the peripheral elements of dance, such as its rich diversity, culture and history.