Teachers
Natalie Potter
From the age of 7 Natalie studied Gymnastics at Northweald Gymnastics club, she is Still proficient and able to teach a variety of tricks. Her dance experience began at the age of 10 at Apton dance studio, learning ballroom dancing, disco freestyle and rock n roll and later moved on to learn RAD ballet.
After A-levels Natalie went to Penny Meekings The Dance College where She achieved ISTD Ballet, Modern and National advanced 2 vocational grades, all with top marks and DDE teaching qualifications in the same genres. She now holds the Licentiate and Fellowship higher teacher Qualification in Modern and will continue to train to get the best out of her students.
After graduating She spent a year dancing professionally and improving other dance styles such as Contemporary, Jazz, Afro Jazz, Street and hip hop, my productions include:
Closing Ceremony for the Olympics 2012 with Darcey Bussell
Featured in, ‘Make Peace Not War’ music video by Skepta (April 2012)
Assistant choreographer/Dancer for H2 productions in Abu Dhabi, in 'Sleeping beauty' (October - November 2010)
Dancer in Brazilian Parade in Abu Dhabi for formula 1 (November 2010)
Feature model/dancer in music video for Cee figures ft. Chris Blaze (16.11.10)
Showgirl in touring show 'Swing from the apple' with muffintop entertainment (2008 – 2014) (U.K + Germany)
Miss Kelly May
Kelly has been dancing since the age of 2 and trained at the Grosvenor’s school of dance in her hometown South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. She was given fantastic opportunities, dancing on the ISTD ballet teaching video, performing at Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th Birthday at the Royal Albert Hall with Donny Osmond, TV appearances such as Blue Peter and GMTV, various shows, events, exams and dance festivals.
From completing her A levels Kelly went on to dance professionally for 9 years landing her first job with Spirit of the dance Productions in their 'Le Grande Cirque' no.1 UK tour, she has since been lucky enough to have various contracts dancing and choreographing abroad in Paris, Cyprus and Portugal, to name a few.
Kelly has completed her ISTD DDI and DDE teaching exams in Ballet, Modern and Tap and is currently training towards her Licentiate qualifications. Kelly has so much Passion and Love for what she does and hopes she can pass her experience and knowledge to all of her students.
Mark
Mark began his career touring the UK after completing his vocational training at Liberatus School of Performing Arts. Having taken his major ISTD exams in Modern Theatre and Imperial Ballet, Mark soon decided to turn his attention to teaching and completed his DDE.
Mark has since taught within both junior and vocational settings and is currently a member of the Ballet faculty at Performers College, Wilkes Academy and the CAT, (Centre For Advanced Training) at DanceEast. As well as this, Mark is an Associate Dance Artist for the Royal Ballets Chance to Dance program.
Mark is currently in the final stages of completing his BA through Middlesex university and very shortly due to take his licentiate within the Imperial Ballet faculty and hopes to begin working on his Fellowship and MA shortly.