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I graduated from the Central School of Ballet in 2003.

My 1st professional contact was with Tetsuya Kumakawa’s K-Ballet in Japan, which was a fantastic experience.

Hard work, but we did travel around all the major cities of Japan and had a simply great time. What a start to my career!!!!!

Japan certainly loves its Ballet.

On my return to the UK I joined English National Ballet in their production of Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall in London. This was great for my family & friends as they were able to come and watch me perform.

I then auditioned for a number of companies in the UK but its fair to say that the competition is intense so after a couple of disappointments I decided to look further afield.

Looking for audition news in various online and other places I came across an audition for Landestheatre Detmold so promptly contacted them and sent of all my details. I was offered an audition and of I went to Germany. I was very fortune as following my audition I was offered a contract by the Ballet Director, Richard Lowe.

I moved to Detmold in August 2004 and have been with the company since then. I have a fantastic boss in Richard, you could not ever have a more caring, genuinely nice person to help and guide you.

I have been lucky as I have had some fantastic roles to play at the company with a great bunch of people.

A quote from Central School Of Ballet

A life in today’s theatre does not mean having a kind of tunnel vision. Instead it means developing your creative imagination alongside your physical skills, being absolutely in touch with the world you live in, being able to respond to your colleagues and communicate vividly with an audience.

As all the different theatre skills come together a dancer has to be able to tackle anything Classical Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Jazz Dance, song, drama, all mixed into performance for today.

Wise dancers make sure that they are ready for anything the professional theatre can throw at them

I try to be a wise dancer............