Ballet Lessons
1) Classes & Private One-to-One Tuition
2) Exam Preparation
3) Prepare for a new School or Ballet Company
4) Choreographed Dances & Solos for Performance – highly creative and original
5) R.A.D. Assistance
6) Russian Vaganova Style Ballet
7) Royal Ballet Style (Old and New)
8) Technique, Diet, and Stretching
9) Dance Psychology & Inner Child Awareness
Credentials
1) Ex-Principal Soloist with Northern Ballet Company, 1982
2) Personally trained by Philip Chatfield & Rowena Jackson, 1982
3) Danceworks (Full-time School) graduate, 1980
4) Trained with Zena Memedova (Vaganova style), Danceworks, London, 1985
5) Trained at the famous “Pineapple Studio” in Covent Garden, London, 1987
6) Counselling graduate – Didi Hirsh Mental Health Center, and Inner Child Therapist, Los Angeles 1998
Performance Experience
1) Principal Soloist roles in Nutcracker (Prince), Giselle (Hilarion), Hansel & Gretel, Alice in Wonderland (March Hare), The Waterbabies, etc
2) Northern Ballet Company
3) Westside School of Ballet, Los Angeles
4) London Ballet Schools (various)
Teaching Experience (30years)
1) Westside School of Ballet, Los Angeles, Partnering Classes, & Open Senior Adult Classes
2) R.A.D. For various London Ballet Schools
3) B.A.L. For Lesley Harris, Whangaporoa School of Dance
4) Open Ballet Classes for Robyn Sinclair, Dunedin School of Dance
5) Open Ballet Classes for Theatre Arts, Dunedin
6) Self Employed Teaching – 30 years
Private Lessons: Children - $30 per half hour Adults - $50 per half hour Classes: $15
Call 09 479 9763 or 022 658 3373 for Private Lessons or for information on ballet class timetables. (Studio at right side basement of 39a Deep Creek Road, Torbay, North Shore, Auckland.)
