Miss Lovick is passionate about helping the young dancers find the joy and beauty of dance.
Miss Helen is our studio director who manages and works on the smooth running on the school. She teaches many genres at the school including Ballet, Modern, Tap, Street/Commercial and Singing. She has trained at Bird College and the prestigious Mountview Academy of Performing Arts, where she has a Master of Arts in Musical Theatre Performance. Miss Helen also holds a BA Hons degree from the University of Exeter. Whilst there, she was a member of the winning dance/pom team at the National University Dance Championships.
Miss Helen has a passion for dance and musical theatre and her specialty is Tap. As a young girl she was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre and the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. She also trained for many years in Irish Dance and performed at the World Irish Dance Championships in Belfast, 2008 and London, 2014.
Having overcome injury in the past, she is passionate about safe dance practice and and building strong technical foundations for all our LLDS pupils to grow from.
Miss Melinda teaches Classical Ballet, Pointe and Pre-pointe, and Ballet Repertoire. She has been teaching and choreographing for LLDS for over 12 years! Miss Melinda also offers online and in-person private ballet tuition for students who want specialised training, extra exam or assessment work, or need help with dance studies.
Miss Melinda is also a Lecturer in Dance Education at the Royal Academy of Dance.
She teaches across the BA(Hons) in Ballet Education and MA in Education (Dance Teaching) programmes, including ballet technique, ballet repertoire, philosophy of dance, and somatic approaches to dance teaching. As well as supervising student dissertations and tutoring on the RAD’s dance teacher placement programme. Melinda holds Registered Teacher Status with the RAD, is an ISTD Affiliate Member, and is a Silver Swans licensee.
Miss Jo has been teaching with us since we started in 2008. She teaches Ballet, Tap and Modern at our Saturday school and is a valuable member of the Saturday team.
Miss Jo is our Galaxy Program Manager and is responsible for the development, organisation and structure of our Year 1 and 2, Galaxy stars pupils. Laying the foundations and building on the basic principles of Modern, Tap and Ballet technique.
Caitlin has recently graduated from London Studio Centre with a First Class degree in Theatre dance specialising in Contemporary and was also awarded the Peter Brinson Contemporary Award. During my time at LSC she was very fortunate to work with some fantastic contemporary choreographers including Luke Brown, Laura Weston and Alleyne Dance who have helped shape her own style of blended techniques.
‘I am really looking forward to being back at LLDS, this time as a teacher, working with the amazing team and teaching core foundations of contemporary techniques in a positive and expressive environment. I can’t wait to see all the fabulous things we achieve together’!
Emily’s theatre credits include: ‘Hunyak’ in Chicago, (RCCL), Stephen Schwartz ‘Magic To Do’ and ‘Born to Dance’ (PCL), ‘Broadway to the Bay’ with west end choreographer Andrew Wright. ‘CBBC Ten Pieces Prom’ at the Albert Hall. UK Olympics Wimbledon Tennis opening (AMCK) and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Jordan Productions)
Emily is absolutely delighted to be joining LLDS as the Acro and ISTD teacher
Mrs Maskell explores music and song with the young children and develops their musicality through play and imagination.
