We at Roynon Performing Arts are extremely proud of our experienced, passionate, diverse and qualified teaching team – in fact, we feel extremely privileged as well to have them on board and able to call them one of our own! RPA students are supported and nurtured in every step of their performing arts journey, gaining important life skills they are able to use on and off stage, such as presentation skills, confidence, following instructions, memory, as well as enhanced self-esteem and physical/mental wellbeing. None of this would be possible without our dedicated teaching team…
Miss Sarah, after teaching freelance for several years, took over the Swanmore arm of Roynon in 2009 which at the time ran on Saturday mornings. It now runs over 60 classes per week over 6 days in a range of dance, drama and music styles for all ages and abilities and supplies a range of other services including events performance and delivery of lessons in local schools. Miss Sarah first started dance at the young age of 3 and trialled her first class wearing welly boots! After gaining ISTD Advanced 2 in Tap and Modern and Intermediate in Ballet, she decided that her passion was within teaching rather than performing. She has trained to teach Ballet, Tap, Contemporary and Modern but her specialty lies within Tap in which she holds her full ISTD DDE and was carried out under the watchful, experienced eye of Virginia Wilkinson (which she “will be eternally grateful for!”). She is extremely passionate about the running of the school and to ensure that it has a professional yet friendly atmosphere that provides a positive experience regardless of whether a student is in one or many of its classes. Miss Sarah has been pivotal in organising fundraising events for charity, including the thousands of pounds so far donated to local children’s cancer charity, Abby’s Heroes. Miss Sarah continues to add to her teaching qualifications and also holds Acrobatic Arts and Progressing Ballet Technique teacher status. Miss Sarah feels honoured to run Roynon Performing Arts and is very proud of how far it has come…
Miss Lucy trained as a scholarship student at The Legat School of Classical Ballet from the age of 13, and continued her professional training with a full scholarship to The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary dance. After graduating in 1998, she spent a summer furthering her training at The Merce Cunningham School in New York. In 2000, Miss Lucy became a founder member of The Ballet Boyz new company, George Piper Dances, travelling Europe with its South Bank Awards nominated show, Pointless. Repertoire for the company includes Sigue by Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon of Nederlands Dans Theatre, Truly Great Things by Charles Linehan, Tangoid by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt of the Royal Ballet Company and Moments of Plastic Jubilation by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt. After a break to travel around the world, Lucy began teaching in Portsmouth, specialising in Ballet and Contemporary dance. She is qualified to teach ISTD Ballet & Modern, progressing Ballet technique, and has been an associate lecturer in Ballet at the University of Chichester for over ten years.
Miss April started dancing at the age of 2 mainly training in Tap, Ballet and Modern Theatre. As she got older, she expanded her training in Musical Theatre, Lyrical, Contemporary, Jazz and Commercial which lead her to have opportunities performing in West End Theatre’s, The Royal Albert Hall and Indigo at the o2. In 2015, April was selected to represent the England Team at the Dance World Championships where she competed for 3 years before having the opportunity to perform in a show in Disneyland Paris and be a part of the Disney Pre-Parade performance twice. April started her teaching qualifications in 2014 and in 2019 Graduated from Chichester College with her DDE in Tap, Ballet and Modern. April Joined Roynon as a student in May 2021 to complete her Advanced 2 Tap and Advanced 1 Modern examinations which she will continue whilst she joins us as a teacher