Kaye Thomas, better known as “Miss Kaye”, is the mother of Natalie Ettingshausen, and former owner of Ettinghausen’s School of Dance. Kaye danced since the age of four years and as a teenager won the Channel 9 show “Opportunity Knocks. In her later years she worked professionally at the Tivoli, Her Majestys Theatre, Chevron Hilton, Chevron Silver Spade Room Sydney, Chevron Melbourne with Bert Newton, Theatre Royal, Channel 9, Bobby Limb Variety Show, and sang and danced as the lead in many pantomimes. She then danced overseas and returned to start her own dancing school full time, specialising in tap.
Kaye is a qualified teacher of the British Dancing Association jazz, tap and ballet syllabus and has been a BDA examiner for over 30 years. Kaye invests time in the community and has been the President of the Highfield Committee for Sutherland Hospital for the past 8 years and a member for 12 years.
Recently Kaye danced with Todd McKenny at Star City and danced in a TV commercial for Foxtel. At EDA, Miss Kaye teaches everything but her unbeatable knowledge and expertise is in Tap!
As an incredibly committed member of ALVA, the Australian Ladies Variety Association, she helps raise money for charities such as, Breast Cancer, Alzeheimers, The Garvan Institute and helps people who have been in show business and have fallen on hard times. Miss Kaye is the Publicity Manager and works tirelessly on events, particularly the Annual Banquet, where new members are introduced to the organisation.
One of Kaye’s mottos – “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you will land among the stars”. This is very fitting as Miss Kaye is one of our stars.