TEACHERS

LL Dance Team

MISS LAUREN

Principal

'I started dancing when I was just 3 years old and have never stopped, I grew such passion and love for it. From my training in Colchester where I worked through my ISTD dance exams, I knew I wanted to pursue a career in teaching and passing on my passion for dance to others.
I successfully auditioned for The Dance College and started my three year full time teacher training course. I finished college with Advanced 2 Tap, Advanced 2 Modern, Intermediate Ballet and Intermediate National and also my DDE teaching qualifications in Ballet, Modern Theatre and Tap.
Whilst at dance college, I started teaching at various dance schools to build my experience and knowledge. Having had lots of success as a teacher at other schools with high exam results for students, and many successfully auditioning for London Dance colleges such as Sylvia Youngs Theatre School. It has been such a privilege to get to see my students performing in West End shows such as Billy Elliot and English Youth Ballet Company.
I started LL Dance & Fitness in 2016 with only a PreSchool and FitSteps class.'

MISS EMMA

Dance and Singing Teacher

'Emma has been dancing since the age of 4 and has trained in Tap, Ballet, Modern Theatre, Jazz, Matt Mattox, Contemporary, Commercial and has studied the arts of acting and devising and as well as choreographic techniques, dance analysis, and Musical Theatre and Pop singing. Emma trained at the University of Chichester Studying Musical Theatre Triple Threat where she graduated in 2017 with a First- class BA Honours degree. Emma’s theatre credits range from working as Dance Captain, Assistant Choreographer and Assistant Producer for product: Crazy For You, A Little Night Music, Carousel, City of Angels, Betty Blue Eyes and Merrily We Roll Along, in addition to taking on principle and supporting character roles. Emma also has screen experience through music video work.
Emma has assisted and taught dancing and singing for 10 years and holds her Level 4 teaching qualification in ‘Diploma in Dance Education’ (DDE) for Modern Theatre and Tap with the ISTD. She has a passion for performing and teaching and always looks forward to seeing her students progress, succeed and flourish through the arts.'

Chloe

Teaching & Admin Assistant

“Chloe started ballet at the age of 3 where her passion for dancing began to grow, before she also took up tap, then moving onto Jazz with The Suffolk School of Dance. When this school became LL Dance & Fitness she then started Modern with Miss Lauren. She has since obtained her Grade 6 Tap and Modern qualifications, Silver Jazz award and Grade 4 Ballet, now continuing her vocational ISTD grades alongside university studies.

She began assisting Miss Lauren in PrePrimary classes in Hadleigh and has since also helped in Primary Ballet and Modern as well as workshops in school holidays. She says, “it is an absolute delight to see the students improve each week and grow as dancers and I hope to be able to continue to assist in these classes”.

She has also taken on the role of Admin Assistant, handling bookings for workshops and general emails, to ensure that our behind the scenes run as smoothly as possible, working closely with the LL Dance team.”