World-class teachers, teaching locally

A BBO scholar at Geraldine Lamb Dance School before training at Elmhurst, Sue holds the RAD Teacher's Certificate and Diploma and teaches as a member of the ISTD and IDTA. She is a Silver Swans Licensee, a certified Progressing Ballet Technique teacher, and a RAD trainee teacher mentor.

Her career has spanned stage and screen, from International Velvet to Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan and Night and Day, with choreography alongside Wayne Sleep. Today she focuses on ballet, directs the school's annual pantomime, and manages administration.

Kirsty returned to GLDS after completing a BA(Hons) and Licentiate at the Royal Academy of Dance. She holds ISTD associate qualifications, is certified in Acrobatic Arts and Alixa Flexibility, and has a BCPA Level 3 in Pilates.

She has performed at the Royal Festival Hall and alongside Wayne Sleep. At the school she leads Acro Dance, is piloting GCSE Dance, and has built thriving outreach classes at Hyde Park Primary School.

Lara trained at Stella Mann College and Italia Conti after GLDS, then performed with Disney Cruise Line and on BBC television. She completed the RAD Professional Dancers' Teaching Diploma in 2016.

A certified DDMIX instructor trained by Darcy Bussell, and a member of the IDTA, NATD and LAMDA, she introduced Speech & Drama to the school and runs Speech & Drama with Lara. She has also taught at King's School Plymouth, Elmhurst Ballet School and the RAD in London, and is passionate about helping every student grow in confidence.

Yui left Japan at 15 to train at the State Ballet School of Berlin, where she was a finalist at the Australian Institute of Classical Ballet Awards and won silver at the International Dance Festival in Berlin.

Her career took her from Leipzig Ballet to soloist at Moravian Ballet, with principal roles in Swan Lake, La Bayadère, The Nutcracker and more. She won the Thálie Award for Best Female Dancer in the Czech Republic for Don Quixote, and later served as Principal Dancer at Ballet Theatre Malaysia. She now brings that world-class experience to our students.