Sydney Dance Rhythms - Bridal, Salsa & Tango Classes

About Sydney Dance Rhythms

Our Studio

Located in the heart of Summer Hill, we offer wide and spacious floor space with plenty of street parking.

We are situated near Summer Hill train station (10 minutes walk) and are accessible from major roads such as Old Canterbury Road and Liverpool Road/ Hume Highway

Our Instructors

Sydney Dance Rhythms (SDR) was founded in 2009, by Cristina who sought share her passion for dancing and to musically develop people for any occasion.

Since its establishment, SDR has expanded to include new instructors. Their involvement with SDR contributes to the development of students, bringing out their best and developing confident dancers who benefit from adding the colour of dance into their lives.

SDR instructors pour their hearts into each lesson and go the extra mile for their students. At SDR, we believe the most important thing is to guide each and every one of our students to their next level of their personal development through dance.

Cristina Iordache

Cristina started developing her dance skills in Ballroom, Latin and Street Latin in her homeland of Romania where she also competed and performed.

Cristina continued improving her dance skills under many of the top Ballroom and Latin instructors in Australia and during this time she volunteered to teach so she may share her passion and love of dance with others.

Whilst volunteering, Cristina decided to establish her own school - SDR was founded on this dream. Today she continues her quest for self-improvement whilst sharing her knowledge and her love of dance with her students.

Cristina was a highly qualified school teacher in Romania, and is highly proficient at the delivery of instructions. Furthermore, being a highly competent dancer, she is able to effectively communicate and instruct any combination of Ballroom and Latin Dances.

Cristina specialises in bridal lessons, and caters for all levels of ability at the same time providing the stage for a memorable wedding performance.

Socially, Cristina is nicknamed as “the Salsa Queen” due to her clean salsa style which is the result of the many years of ballroom training and disicpline.

She is also a Zumba and ZumbAtomic certified instructor.

Elmira Forest

Elmira began her dance life at age 6 training in Contemporary under Johanna Clancy (former Head of Dance at NAISDA Dance College) at Katoomba Dance Theatre. At the age 14 she branched out into other styles such as Hip Hop and by 16 was beginning to teach.

After finishing high school in 2009, Elmira taught at two Blue Mountains dance studios in the styles of Contemporary, Hip Hop, Jazz, Ballet and some Tap and Cheerleading. During this time Elmira enjoyed teaching a Jazz-based class for both mentally and physically disabled students.

In 2010 Elmira moved from Katoomba to Inner West Sydney, became a qualified Zumba Basics 1 instructor and her choreography and performance was chosen for the Semi- FInals of Fast + Fresh Dance. Elmira is currently studying for her BA (Dance & Creative Arts) at Macquarie University.

She believes in dancing for fun, friendship and for spiritual and physical wellbeing.

Reynaldo Yeo

Reynaldo specialises in latin ballroom and advocates all-round health and fitness.

His background ranges from a variety of sports including athletics, touch football, gymnastics, boxing as well as dance.