The Premier Dance Studio

Kathryn started her dancing career at a local dancing school, where she trained in all aspects of dance, singing and the performing arts. During her training, Kathryn performed in numerous shows and competed in regional festivals. Kathryn then went on to perform in professional shows and cabarets before deciding to direct her passion to the world of teaching. Thus six years ago, Kathryn embarked on her new vocation, passing her ISTD Associate Tap in October 2002.

Kathryn is currently studying for her final modules of FDI and CDE in both Modern and Tap with the ISTD and is also an Associate member of the IDTA. At present Kathryn teaches for a school in Woking as well as The Premier Dance Studio, where she has choreographed frequent dance school shows and is looking forward to her first show with Premier. Kathryn is also an experienced festival choreographer, having many successes at different national competitions with routines in Modern, Tap, Ballet and Song and Dance.

Kelly started her dancing career here at Premier Dance Studio, where she trained in all dance genres as well as Musical Theatre and Singing. During her training Kelly performed in frequent dance shows, regional dance festivals and performed in professional Pantomime both at Bracknell and Camberley, as well as a West End debut at ‘Her Majesty’s Theatre’, London. Whilst still at Premier, Kelly went on to further her training at Guildford College where she gained her National Diploma in Performing Arts and Dance, during her training Kelly undertook teaching Performing Arts in various Primary Schools in the local area.

Kelly has always had a passion for performing and in 2006 set off for Disney Land, Paris to perform Character and Parade. Upon her return Kelly continued her work with Disney Special Events (London) and in 2007 performed in the Jungle Book 40^th Anniversary Showcase in Holland. Deciding to turn her talent towards teaching, Kelly embarked on a three year BA programme of study in Dance and Exercise Science at Roehampton University, where she is currently in her final year. Kelly has previously taught for Italia Conti Associates and Premier for some years choreographing festival work, as well as their popular holiday workshops. Kelly is now thrilled at joining Premier’s teaching staff on a permanent basis.

Emma started ballet lessons aged 2½ and spent the majority of her training at Corraine Collins Dance Studios in Cheltenham. She then went on to study at All That Jazz Dance College in Bristol where she was introduced to tap and jazz. After college, she spent the next 6 years working in the Financial Service industry  and, after a break from dancing, started participating in adult tap and jazz lessons at 344 Dance School in Bristol in 2001. Over the next 3 years, Emma went on to take her vocational and teaching exams in Modern, Tap and Imperial Ballet and with a new fuelled passion for dance, some five years ago decided to go into teaching full time.

Emma spent 2½ years teaching for 2 dance schools in the Bristol area, before moving down to Farnborough in December 2006, where she achieved great success in not only her choreography but also her examination results. Emma is fully qualified to FDI for the ISTD and is currently in the final stages of gaining CDE status. Premier is proud to welcome Emma back after her maternity leave and looks forward to many more years of success.  

Cerys has been dancing for 25 years. Her love of dance is rooted in early experiences of Ballet, Tap, Modern Jazz and Musical Theatre but her passion now lies in urban dance styles including Street and Hip-Hop. Cerys has been a member of two local Street and Hip-Hop Dance crews who have trained, performed and competed in the South East region of England. She has experience in teaching dance to children and adults in England and overseas. Since gaining Qualified Teacher Status in 2004, she has set up extra-curricular Street Dance clubs for many different schools and choreographed dances for numerous school productions spanning over five years of dedicated primary school teaching.

In 2006, her teaching took her to Thailand where she organised her school’s first and second annual dance festivals and scripted, choreographed and directed four whole school productions. She also set up and ran extra-curricular Dance and Musical Theatre clubs for the school and led daily whole school ‘Wake up Shake up’ morning dancercise sessions for children and teachers. During her two years in Thailand, Cerys had the opportunity to train in various world dance styles at her own level, which have inspired the brand of fusion Street Dance that she now teaches.  Now in England, Cerys is an IDTA qualified dance teacher and works in partnership with a number of schools, sports organisations, local authorities and community groups to provide dance tuition to children, young people and adults, as well as running her own Reading based dance school, specialising in Street Dance.

In 1987 Sheren moved to Hampshire and was spotted whilst attending a dance class and asked to audition to be part of a cabaret / can-can dance group. The group founder and choreographer was an ex Tiller Girl and it was through her expert tuition Sheren learned and developed her passion for showgirl / Burlesque dancing. After dancing with the troupe at shows all over the south of England performing numerous show girl routines and always finishing with the wildly popular can can, as well as doing yearly Panto, Sheren retired from the stage in 2000 to concentrate on teaching dance fitness. With the launch of programmes like Strictly etc, Sheren quickly realised how many women, mums and grannies had a secret desire to dance but felt they were too old or had left it too late and would struggle in a dance class and feel silly. As well as this she discovered that many women wanting to get fit didn’t enjoy the standard fitness classes offered at gyms so therefore Salsatone was born and all the classes within it. PDS is excited that Sheren has brought her exciting adult classes to their studios.

Charlotte Campling started training in the Performing Arts (singing, jazz, tap, modern, ballet, musical theatre, LAMDA) at the age of three. She started at Susan Roberts Academy and continued her studies more seriously at The Brits School. Finally she trained at Doreen Bird where she gained a first class BA Honours degree in the performing arts.

Charlotte regularly performs and teaches around Surrey and London and has been a part of numerous shows and concerts. These include a touring production of an all-female cast ‘Godspell’ as well as singing and playing piano on luxurious cruise ships across the world.

Charlotte is a passionate teacher and has the ability to get the very best out of her students. Charlotte follows the Estil singing method in her teaching, as it allows the student to understand their voice fully, but most importantly using it to its best potential.