Dance Teachers

Information from some of our dance workers on their training and experience, so you'll be able to find out a little more about the person teaching your dance class

Beth Andrews

Beth is a freelance dance practitioner, teaching some of our adult classes including Chance to Dance and Dancefit. Her work with youth groups has ranged from parents and wobblers, mini movers, through to community dance clubs and project work with Dancefest’s youth performance groups. more...

Elizabeth Crosswell

Elizabeth teaches many classes for Dancefest including Rock Chance to Dance. She also teaches extensively and manages our work with adults. more...

Enid Gill

Enid has worked within contemporary dance for over 25 years, originally training at London Contemporary Dance School then dancing for inspirational choreographers including Jane Dudley, Janet Smith and Angela Woodhouse in England, and Alexander Baervoets, Nadine Ganase and Claudio Bernardo in Belgium.

Michele Holder

Michele is Dancefest's Dance Development Team Leader for Access and Inclusion. more...

Marie Oldaker

Marie is a freelance choreographer, creative dance practitioner and arts project coordinator with over twenty five years’ experience working in community and education contexts. She has a long history with Dancefest and is very proud to share the organisation’s belief that access for all, to high quality dance experiences, has a genuinely positive impact on people’s lives. more... 

Fi Petts

Fi has been working as a freelance dance teacher for Dancefest since June 2014. Fi graduated from Bath Spa University in 2009 and completed a BA Hons Degree in Contemporary Dance and Film with a 2:1. Soon after, she started working with 2Faced Dance as their Education Manager and Youth Dance Leader. more...

Cassie Rivett

Cassie deliverss KS2 primary dance in education projects for Dancefest. She graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BA Hons in Dance and Theatre Arts, and qualified as a secondary teacher in 1999. Since then Cassie has been a Performing Arts teacher in secondary education, teaching GCSE Drama, BTEC and A Level Dance, Musical Theatre and Performing Arts. more...

Clare Wood

Clare teaches lots of Dancefest classes including the Contemporary class for adults Worcester on Tuesdays. She is also Dancefest's Dance Development Team Leader for Young People, developing projects for young dancers throughout the region. more...

Elizabeth Winter

Liz began her training in ballet, tap, modern and jazz in Worcester before completing full time dance training in Guildford. She currently teaches our beginners' ballet classes for children and adults. more...

Janene Wyatt

Janene teaches most of our classes in Herefordshire and all of our classes in Tenbury. She leads Dancefest Elevate, Herefordshire's youth dance perfomance company, and is Dance Development Team Leader for Children. more...

Would you like to teach for Dancefest?

We're always pleased to hear from freelance dance workers so get in touch if you'd like to work with Dancefest.

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