She moved on to guest in the West Australian Ballet in Perth, and as a Principal artist in Neglia Ballet and Dance of Upstate NY. After hanging up her pointe shoes in 2010 she became the Executive Assistant to the Ambassador at the New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. She also gained her Pilates Mat Certification through LindaFit Pilates and taught at various gyms and studios around Manhattan. At this time, Marysa was also exposed to Barre classes and loved the similarities to dancing, such as the precision, poise and concentration required. It had remarkable results on her body (without the nine hours required in a dance studio each day!)and from this point, she was hooked. In 2012 Marysa joined the team at Barrecore, the first barre studio in London. She obtained her barre certification in the UK and was a Master Instructor teaching group and private classes. Clients included pre- and post-natal mothers, young professionals, over fifties, socialites, actresses, celebrities and even royalty…if you try, you might even get her to name names! Marysa is a qualified pre- and postnatal Pilates specialist, through Carolyne Anthony and the Centre of Women’s Fitness. After six amazing years away from New Zealand, the pull of home was inevitably strong and Marysa knew she wanted to bring barre to New Zealand. Barrefigure was launched in September 2014 and she has combined her experience of professional ballet dancing and teaching in New York City and London to create her own style of barre classes. She was honoured to be a Lululemon Ponsonby Ambassador for two years and loves pushing clients to create strong beautiful lean bodies and help them find their inner strength. Marysa become a mother to Alexa in December 2016 and Thomas in June 2018 and credits barre helping her to have a healthy pregnancy and labour and getting back into shape soon after.

Genevieve was a Barrefigure client who fell in love with the class after years of dancing and as a lover of exercise she was blown away by the class and its ability to tone and lean, enabling you to feel strong both within your body and in your mind! Gen is a Mum to toddler, TJ and pregnant with a girl due at the end of the year.

While recovering from an injury, Louisa retrained at Auckland drama school The Actors’ Program, and has since worked on stage and screen as an actor and choreographer. She is currently studying a BA/BCom in Marketing and Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland.

Barre is in the family: her mum is a regular at Barrefigure, and her sister teaches at the London studio where Marysa and Charlotte previously taught. Louisa has been a client since 2015, loving the class atmosphere and how quickly she felt results. She is thrilled to join the team at Barrefigure after completing teacher training with Marysa and Charlotte, and is looking forward to helping clients love the shake and burn!

Amelia is a very experienced barre teacher, having taught for the last 5.5 years at Barrecore; where Marysa and Charlotte trained and formerly worked. Amelia is also sister to our current Barrefigure instructor, Louisa!

Amelia trained at The Australian Ballet School then joined Dance Company PROJECTion touring Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. She has also performed with the English National Ballet. Whilst in London she also teaches ballet, is a certified personal trainer and a STOTT Pilates trained instructor.

She is a tough cookie and her classes are challenging and fun and we are very excited to have Amelia join our team!

Since graduating, Kit has been involved in a variety of projects including music videos, dancing in the Rambert Dance Company installation in London, and working with NZ based choreographers and Dance Plant Collective for Tūrama Festival (as a dancer and composer).

In 2018 Kit began to create his first full length choreographic work ‘Utopia #9’ featuring a self composed music score and it premiered at Tempo Dance Festival in October 2019.

Kit completed his Barrefigure training in November 2019 and is excited to bring his “calm assassin” style to classes while encouraging and motivating all the clients to push to new limits in his classes!

Bella has a diverse teaching practice, and regularly teaches contemporary dance technique, ballet, dance conditioning, improvisation and choreographic practice within dance studios, elite pre-professional training programmes, high schools and tertiary dance institutions across Auckland and beyond. She is currently a member of the ballet faculty at Unitec, and has recently lectured on the University of Auckland’s Dance Studies programme in both technique and choreography. She is a sought after contemporary dance coach, and many of her students have gained success at competitions and auditions for full-time training.

Bella joined the Barrefigure team in May 2018, after completing the 5 month in-house Barrefigure teacher trainee programme with Charlotte and Marysa. She loves motivating others to reach their potential, and we can guarantee she will push you to your limits!

SA New Zealand native, she recently returned from 13.5 years in the USA where she taught yoga, wellness workshops, and learnt a bunch about the daily grind as well as the need for a daily unwind.
She studied with with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee, NY, USA for her advanced 100 hour yoga teacher training. Her original 200 hour training was completed with the delightful Shannon Ball and Anne Ethier at the Athens Yoga Institute, GA, USA.