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Sandra Mitchell Davey AISTD Dip Life member, ID Dance Contemporary

 (Principal)

 

Sandra has 30+ years teaching experience - an innovative choreographer who loves to nurture and encourage pupils to "own" their dancing. She trained at the highly acclaimed Laine Theatre Arts, completing the full professional dancers and teachers 3 year course. After another 3 years dancing professionally, she moved on to teaching, found her niche and received many choreographic awards nationally at All England competitions, Eisteddfods, the prestigious ISTD Janet Cram Awards and Festival of Festivals.

 

She has taught at Elmhurst Ballet School, Arts Educational School Chiswick, as well as many schools in South London/Hampshire. Her previous students have appeared or are appearing in West End productions - "Fame", "West Side Story", "Lion King", "Phantom of the Opera", "Billy Eliot", "42nd street", "Wicked", "We Will Rock You", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Mary Poppins","Mamma Mia"; and TV's "So You Think You Can Dance", Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake", Estonian Ballet Company, Romanian Ballet Company and many more worldwide.

 

She specialises in 1 to 1 training and student/professional training aiming for the best possible technical standard as well as having fun!