Teaching Qualifications

  •  2019 Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) Certification

  • 2007 Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD): Imperial Ballet Fellowship Teaching Diploma (4th ISTD professional teaching level; requires the Licentiate or Level 6 DDP and the Advanced 2 in the relevant dance genre)

  • 2003 Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD): Modern Associate Teaching Diploma

  • 2002 Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD): Imperial Ballet Licentiate Teaching Diploma (3rd ISTD professional teaching qualification level)

  • 2002 Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD): Advanced 1 Vocational Tap Examination

  • 2001 Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD): Advanced 2 Vocational Imperial Ballet and Modern Theatre Examinations

  • 2000 2002 Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD): Imperial Ballet Associate Dip Diploma (2nd ISTD professional teaching qualification level)

  • 1998 Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD): Imperial Ballet Associate Teaching Diploma (1st ISTD professional teaching qualification level)

  • 1990 Royal Academy of Dance (RAD): Advanced 2 Vocational Ballet Examination and ARAD status

  • 1989 - 1991 National Diploma (3yrs) in Performing Arts, Pretoria Technikon (South Africa): Ballet Major with special focus in dance history and choreography

  • 1988 South African Dance Teachers Association (SADTA): Tap and Modern Associate Teaching Diploma

  • 1988 Acrobatic Federation of South Africa (AFSA): Acrobatic Associate Teaching Diploma

DANCE SCIENCE & ACADEMIC Qualifications

  • August 2021 MA: Professional Practice: Dance Pedagogy, Middlesex University, UK

  • 2019  BSc Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC): Kinesiology and Gerontology

  • 2004 Simon Fraser University: Certificate in Health & Fitness

  • 1994 -1996 Various Musicology and Music credits (University of South Africa)

  • 1993 Diploma in Advanced Public Relations: Birnam Business College (South Africa) and The International Business Institute (New York)

Professional Dance Experience 1992 - 1997 (Equity Member, South Africa):

South African Performing Arts Council (SAPAC)

  • 1997 “Annie - the Musical" - CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Council)

  • 1995 – 1997 “Queen at the Opera” – South African Tour (CABAB, NAPAC - Natal Performing Arts Council, PACT - Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal,)

  • 1994/1995 “Crazy for You” – South African Tour (PACT, CAPAB)                                                                  

  • 1994 “Joseph & the Technicolour Dreamcoat” (PACT)                                                                                                                              

  • 1993/1994 “Me & My Girl” (PACT)

  • 1993 "The Merry Widow" (PACT)

Natal Performing Arts Council Ballet Company (NAPAC)

  • Company Ballet Dancer: 1992/ 1993: Traditional classical repertoire (including Romeo & Juliet, Don Quixote, Coppelia, The Nutcracker, Balanchine ballets) and works by innovators of the South African Contemporary Ballet and Modern world (to name a few: Robyn Orlin, Alfred Hinkel, David Krugel and Sonje Mayo)