International Teacher and Examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance
Kate trained to teach at the Royal Academy of Dance, where she passed the Professional Dancer’s Teaching Diploma with Distinction. She then went to the Royal Ballet School to participate in an Intensive Character Dance Teachers Course.
Kate had a career spanning nearly twenty years as a professional dancer, performing a wide variety of works with the Royal Opera Ballet, Covent Garden, Opera North and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
She was a soloist with the Johann Strauss Company, performing in the UK and Scandinavia.
Her love of Character work led her to join Paul Taras Company of Ukrainian Dancers and Musicians, with whom she toured extensively.
Television credits as a dancer in period dramas include: Poirot, Hannay, House of Elliot, and Vanity Fair.
Kate is a member of the ballet faculty at the Royal Academy of Dance School in Battersea, DanceEast in Ipswich, and London Studio Centre.
She has also taught at Pineapple Dance Studios London, Cambridge Performing Arts, and Stageworks in Huntingdon.
Kate has taught, and continues to teach on many Summer Schools for London Studio Centre, The Royal Academy of Dance, The Art Centre in Gibraltar, and Northern Ireland.
Currently, she is involved in delivering Associate Programmes, and Repertoire Workshops in London, Cambridge, Ipswich, and Dublin.