Judy is a qualified Secondary Dance Teacher, and a  CSTD teacher. Judy danced professionally as a Burswood Theatre dancer supporting international acts when they came to Perth and a Western Reds Dancer for Perth's Superleague Rugby team. Freelance performing throughout Perth. In 1996 Judy started a dance business Make your Move to bring international and national artists to Perth for workshops and creating performance pieces for the company. Judy ran a dance school in Kununurra before returning to Perth and working at John Curtin College of the Arts as a dance teacher and joining The Dance Collective as a dancer, then a teacher/choreographer.