A dancer since the age of 3, Brit just isn’t herself if she isn’t dancing. Taking ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary and hip hop in her younger years God has navigated her to dance teacher and choreographer running various community dance programs over the years. Over the last decade she has fallen in love for the way dance and movement can communicate the love of God our Father to us, his children. She has an emerging passion for work using flags, billows and ribbons. She is currently on the teaching and leadership team of Southern Dance Academy running their sister school in her local rural community.Brittni is a Torah Club leader with First Fruits of Zion, serves on the parish council at her local church, is currently completing her associate teaching qualification with Generation Edinburgh, a Christian-based dance curriculum, has a diploma in Business Administration and a BA in Performing Arts from Otago University and has taught community dance for over 10 years.  She brings a wealth of administrative and HR knowledge to the joint coordinator role, drawn from her current work experience as director of Fairhaven Dairy Ltd.

Nicola Simpson is a dancer, teacher, choreographer and writer living in Balclutha. She is the founder of Southern Dance Academy, a faith-based dance school. Nicola has a deep love for the Lord and for worship. Her heart is to see people connect with the Lord creatively through worship, via dance or any other art form.Nicola has been a worship leader for many years and currently serves as part of the intercessory team at her church. She has a Diploma in Christian Ministries from Alpha Crucis, a National Diploma in Journalism, a Bachelor of Communication in Expressive Arts from Massey University and a Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy. Nicola is a registered Dance Movement Therapist with Dance Therapy Association of Australasia, and a registered dance teacher with both Living Dance International and Generation Edinburgh. In addition to this wealth of knowledge and experience, Nicola brings 10 years of connection with ICDFANZ to the joint coordinator role. She has faithfully served on the re-founding committee in a variety of roles, including Secretary, Otago-Southland Representative, and National Prayer Coordinator.

“All in or not at all” Chantelle like David loves to worship the Lord with all her might and is willing to become humiliated in her own eyes and even more undignified for the glory of the Lord. Chantelle has 15 years’ experience teaching street dance (known as Hip-hop) to all ages in South Canterbury and held workshops out of South Canterbury and ran dance events, fundraisers and shows.  She creates her own choreography but since encountering Jesus has enjoyed a completely different kind of dance being led by the Holy Spirit in spontaneous praise in her local church with and without Flags. The Lord has directed her steps to ICDFANZ where she has completed the Diploma of Dance Ministry Introduction Course and attended the International ICDFANZ Conference in Christchurch in April 2025. She has 2 sons and 1 grandson and has a passion for art and enjoys painting scriptures given from the Holy Spirit in image form.

I am from Ranfurly in Central Otago and I believe God has a plan for each of us, Jeremiah 29:11, For I know the plans I have for you" — this is the LORD's declaration — "plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.  I love being able to worship and praise God. I am thankful every day for the many blessings and for being able to share my faith with the people around me. Being a kindergarten teacher, I am passionate about all children having opportunities to have a go, grow in confidence, and be accepted.  I owned and managed a home-based childcare business in Te Anau before moving to Ranfurly in 2019. In my free time, I am working to build a garden, with plans to share the produce with the local community. I have a diploma in Early Childhood Education (ECE teacher) and am currently studying towards a Certificate in Horticulture.  I have 3 fur babies, Benji, Ruby Bear and Olaf. 

am Dutch from origin and grew up in the Netherlands. From a young age I loved making music, playing the guitar, singing and dancing. I have done different styles of dancing, like ballroom dancing, Jazz ballet, Salsa and Ceroc. In my early twenties I went to Israel and ended up living in Jerusalem for 6 years. It is there that I fell madly in love with Israeli Folk Dancing.

Israeli Folk Dance has been developing in Israel since the early 1900s. Traditional ethnic dance of Yemenite, Kurdish, Moroccan and Argentinean Jews returning to the land have all influenced the style of dance and music. The 3 main streams of dances are Hora, Chassidic and Yemenite. After emigrating to New Zealand, I picked up Israeli dancing again in Nelson with a dance group connected with Machol Pacifica, New Zealand's National Israeli Dance collective. In August 2024 I organised a workshop for Israeli Folk Dancing in Dunedin sponsored by Machol Pacifica and ICDFANZ. After the workshop I started weekly classes in Dunedin for the remainder of the year. I am a mother of 4 and grandmother of 7.