" the aim of giving through teaching "

I started dancing at a very young age, attending the Stella Mann School of Dancing, and passing exams in ISTD Ballet, Modern, and National Dance. It was so much fun, that it soon became my main focus, and I went on to train at the London Studio Centre.
From there, I joined the Weiner Ballet Company touring around Germany and performing in, amongst others, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and The Nutcracker.
Returning to London, I worked in various commercials, and as a television dancer, before returning to Germany to join the Keil Ballet Company as a soloist in Coppelia, Carmina Burana and The Sleeping Beauty. I then came back to England, joining the original tour of Phantom of The Opera, at the Manchester Opera House, where I was to meet my future husband!
Returning to London again, I went to study on the Professional Dancers Teacher Training Course, at the RAD....obtaining a distinction on completion, and winning the Jerwood Award for most outstanding teacher.
Later that year, I got married...at London Zoo! (and no, it wasn't in any of the animal enclosures!!). Two years later, we had our beautiful daughter Cate.
Meeting up with Erna again, after so long, gave us the impetus to start Jumpup...with the aim of giving through teaching, a little of what we were so lucky to have had when we were small!