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Jade was awarded a part scholarship to train professionally at The Centre Performing Arts College under the direction of Karen King where she trained in a variety of dance genres. She completed a three year Professional dance and musical Theatre training Course, while also gaining distinctions in her ISTD teaching qualifications in Classical Ballet, Modern Theatre & Tap. Jade has competed in various competitions across the country and performed in numerous shows at several wonderful theatres. During the last few years Jade has taught freelance at many differen’t schools and has entered pupils for ISTD exams with a 100% success rate. Jade also has her own successful preschool babyballet franchise in Hastings, Bexhill, Eastbourne & Lewes.

Miss Cat graduated from Laban in 2004 with a 1st Class Degree in BA Hons, Dance Theatre. Cat is an experienced dance artist who has been performing and teaching for the last 10 years. Her performance experience includes Abalino Dance Theatre, Articulate Animal, Martial Dance, Tempered Body Dance Theater and Future Cinema. Past choreographic credits includeActionReaction(2007) and The Other(2008) which she co-choreographed for Martial Dance and toured in venues throughout Scotland and England. More recently Cat created her own Solo Die and Die Again (2010) and a White Room (2013). Trained in Contemporary and Ballet techniques; Cat has extensive experience as a teacher of all age groups from nursery through to adults. Cat regularly choreographs for youth companies , schools and festivals. A few examples include co-choreographing Bound (2010), Shake-Break-Bounce (2011) and the dance film Out of Place (2011) for HED:Strong :East Sussex Youth Dance, ‘Play’ for Ocklynge Primary School (2010), and Schindlers List (2012), Time to Say Goodbye (2013) and Occupation (2014) for Shining Stars Dance Academy.

Holly trained at Bexhill College and was awarded a First Diploma in Performing Arts and a BTEC National Diploma in Musical Theatre. From an early age Holly competed in a wide range of dance festivals and competitions across the country winning many medals and trophies, performed in Amateur Dramatic Company shows, as well as appearing in many local pantomimes including Aladdin, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk & Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In the last few years Holly has worked aboard professionally in both Spain and Egypt as a Dancer/Entertainer. Holly is currently training at Chichester College towards her ISTD teaching qualifications in Imperial Ballet, Modern Theatre & Tap.

Katy-jo trained at Doreen Birds school of performing Arts. She graduated with a distinction and her associates in ISTD ballet, tap and modern. She has enjoyed teaching all styles of dance, singing and drama to all ages for the last 16 years. Straight out of college she successfully auditioned for the first ever UK Tour of Saturday Night Fever. Since then she has performed in West end and No 1 UK Touring productions such as Fame, Cats, Godspell and Oliver. Between shows she has been lucky enough to have 3 beautiful children. Katy-jo is proud to be the assistant choreographer on Tomboogie, the dance workout based on the Musicals, and has spent the last 2 years teaching classes and presenting the brand around the UK.

Emily first found her passion for performing arts when she was asked to play Mary in the nativty play in year 3! She then followed her passion and joined several Theatre groups. Emily completed her BTEC National Diploma in performing arts at Sussex Downs College with Distinctions. She then went on to Staffordshire university and Graduated with Honours in Drama Performance and Theatre Arts.  Emily then returned to Hastings where she began teaching at The White Rock Theatre whilst completing a one year intensive acting course at The Academy in London. Emily has been teaching at The White Rock Theatre for 4 years and has also created her own drama group in Battle. She is really looking forward to holding the Musical theatre class and cant wait to get stuck in to ‘ All that Jazz’.

Ailsa trained and graduated from The Centre – Performing Arts Collage in 2015 gaining a Diploma in Theatre Performance and also her practical ISTD teaching qualifications in both Tap and Modern. From a young age Ailsa has been performing and taken part in many productions including playing Amber Von Tussel in Hairspray, Fraulin Knuppeldick in Spring Awakening, Monica Smithers in Daisy Pulls It Off and dancing on The One Show. Whilst in training she was also part of Tap Attack Dance Company and was previously involved in a video production for Bedlam Dance Company. Ailsa has recently become an Acrobatic Arts Certified Teacher and is really excited to be a part of the team at Just Dance Studios.