Sophie Ware

As Suzanne’s eldest daughter, Sophie has been dancing since the age of 2 and has been involved with the school for as long as she can remember! She achieved her RAD Advanced 2 at 17 and was pre-senior at the Central School of Ballet for 3 years. Sophie has qualified as a finalist in the All England Dance Festivals on several occasions and counts her greatest moment as dancing the part of Columbine in the Nutcracker for Anna Dubossin. She is currently undertaking her RAD teacher’s qualification and will be taking up a place at Laine Theatre Arts later in year.

Hayley Taylor

Hayley began dancing locally at the age of 8 and soon began supplementing her classes by attending the London Junior Ballet at weekends. At 16 she was awarded a full scholarship for the London Studio Centre. Hayley toured the country with ‘Images of Dance’ before embarking on her teacher training with the RAD. Now fully qualified, Hayley teaches ballet, contemporary, jazz and Pilates here at Suzanne’s and is also regularly invited back to teach at London Studio Centre.

Sarah Hewitt

In addition to attending classes at a local dance school, Sarah also trained with the London Junior Ballet and the Royal Ballet Senior Associates, and took courses with the English National Ballet. She continued her training at the Arts Educational School in Tring where she gained her Teaching Associates qualification in ISTD Modern and Cecchetti Ballet as well as a diploma in dance. Sarah then attended London Studio Centre for a year before enrolling on the RAD Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies course which she completed in 2006.

 Jo Roberts

One of Jo’s earliest memories is of learning to dance. She studied all styles of dance but enjoyed the modern style most of all. at 19 she joined a dance troupe called ‘The Movement Academy’ which was sponsored by Nike and performed all over the UK, including several TV appearances. Jo began teaching after leaving the group and now teaches streetdance for under 10s. She has recently opened a pre-school street/jazz class for ages 2-4 which is proving to be very popular! Jo thoroughly enjoys teaching her little streetdancers and watching them grow into confident young performers.

Helen Locke-Williams

Helen worked as a writer for Mother & Baby magazine for many years before deciding on a change of career. She started her own playgroup where she ran a toddler dance class and went on to qualify as a secondary school teacher. She now combines her love of ballet with her valuable expertise on babies and children to teach our up and coming Baby Ballet, 4 year olds and Rising 5s.

Penny Lane

Penny has a vast experience in show business and the music industry and has appeared a major worldwide venues working with Cliff Richard, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett. Her TV credits include series with Terry Wogan and various other TV shows and BBC specials. Her tremendously popular stage show enjoyed a very successful season at The London Palladium as well as appearances at Royal Gala performances. Penny is also a talented song-writer and has co-written with Billy Ocean as well as having several of her compositions recorded by artists such as Gloria Gaynor and The Three Degrees. She now teaches singing to students at Suzanne’s, many of whom have gone on to appear in the West End.

Caroline Dillamore

Caroline trained alongside Suzanne under the late Joanne Marsden-Blackwell. She went on to The Royal Ballet Upper School as a dancer, after which she joined a dance company. Touring with the company enabled her to travel extensively before returning home and establishing herself as a teacher. She has taught here at Suzanne’s for many years and continues to be very popular with students.

Laura Beard

Having been trained right here at Suzanne’s from a young age, Laura has a real love for dance is currently training for her vocational dance exams. She now works as a freelance streetdance teacher and teaches our Wednesday night adult street class.

Alex Bootman

Alex began her professional dance training at the Arts Educational School Tring Park at the age of ten, where she acquired her ISTD teaching qualifications in Modern and Tap, alongside a number of other vocational and academic qualifications.  After graduating from Tring at 18 Alex furthered her training at London Studio Centre. Recently Alex has completed the RAD’s BA(hons) in Dance Education, additionally acquiring a teaching qualification from the RAD. She now teaches our popular Monday tap classes in addition to teaching at three other schools across South West London and Middlesex.

Bradley Cook

At the age of 13 Bradley successfully auditioned for a professional porgramme called ‘London Talent’ and was one of a handful to be awarded a scholarship. Bradley attended Bishopshalt Sixth Form where he played the elad in ‘Back to the 80s’ and ‘Bye Bye Birdie’. His other achievements have been lead roles in The Beck Theatre Summer Youth Projects ‘Annie’, ‘Fame’ and ‘West Side Story’, and he played Chad in Songtime’s production of ‘High School Musical’. Bradley now belongs to a dance squad and has competed all over the world. He recently joined us to teach our popular Thursday Streetdance classes.

Joanne Pratt

Jo is a qualified NNEB nursery nurse and has many years of experience caring for and teaching young children. Before she moved to London she ran a successful dance school and child-minding business in Scarborough. She has now been in London for just over a year and is thoroughly enjoying her time here at Suzanne’s. She works every morning at Suzanne’s Little Stars playgroup, where the children dance, sing and have a wonderful time with the wide variety of toys and activities that are on offer to them. Jo also teaches our popular Tiny Tap class, introducing our youngest pupils to the fun of tap dancing.