Meet The Team

We understand that when starting a new dance class, it is helpful to put a face to your teacher’s name.

We are a friendly and enthusiastic team, bringing different skills and backgrounds to Live Love Perform ensuring you have a rounded start to dance!

• Natalie

  

  Founder & Director natalie@liveloveperform.co.uk

  Natalie founded Live Love Perform in Edinburgh in 2017, and the school moved down to Reigate in 2021. Natalie has a BA (Hons) Degree in Dance, a Performing Arts Diploma from the Italia Conti Academy and is a fully registered teacher with the Royal Academy Of Dance.

  With over 15 years experience as a professional dancer and dance teacher, Natalie decided to form her own dance school and share her passion with the future generations!

  What's your favourite dance move?Snake And Switch because it's bold and funky; it's well-known amongst our students that I love this move and include it wherever I can!

• Francesca

  

  Business Manager francesca@liveloveperform.co.uk

  Francesca is our amazing Business Manager, who joined us on a freelance basis in 2021. She oversees our general business strategy, and ensures we are aligning ourselves with our ethos in everything we do. She’s also a genius at everything related to social media and in house photographer, hence why our Instagram always looks so vibrant!

  You’ll also sometimes see her in classes, and at our many community events; make sure you go and say hi!

  What's your favourite song and why?I love Points of Authority by Linkin Park. I remember dancing on my bed to this when I was young and it is a song I love to sing along to in the car!

• Katie

  

  Teacher

  Katie is currently training at Laine Theatre Arts studying Musical Theatre. Her love for dance started from a very young age at a local dance school in Glasgow. She then went on to train at the Dance School of Scotland (where she focused on Ballet) before moving to Epsom to begin her professional training. One of Katie’s highlights has been being part of the Scottish Ballet Youth Exchange where she was selected to travel to New York to work with other contemporary dancers and choreographers. Katie is very excited to work with the young dancers at Live Love Perform and share her love of dance with them.

• Emilia

  

  Teacher

  Emilia is a performer who has a diploma in dance from The Brit School and has a BA Hons in Musical Theatre from the Brighton Academy.

  She has been lucky enough to perform in such venues as the The Royal Albert Hall, The 02 and The Royal Festival Hall in a variety of dance shows, flash-mobs and award shows, as well as working abroad as a dancer/aerialist. Emilia has been a dance teacher since a young ages, and loves passing her love of performance onto the next generation! Emilia is also passionate about health and fitness and is a qualified personal trainer.

• Megan

  

  Teacher

  Megan is currently in her second year at Laine Theatre Arts, where she is training towards a Level 6 diploma and BA (hons) in Musical Theatre. She will also leave with both DDE Tap and Modern qualifications. Megan began dancing at the age of 7 and hasn’t stopped since! She was also a member of Tap Attack.

  What are you most excited about joining Live Love Perform?I am super excited to bring tap to Live Love Perform and hope I can share my love of tap with you all!

• Francesca

  

  Teacher

  Francesca trained at The Royal Academy of Dance on the BA (Hons) Ballet Education Degree course and in Musical Theatre at The Guildford School of Acting (GSA). Francesca has taught at various dance and theatre schools in both London and Jersey. In addition to her teaching work Francesca continues to work as a professional actor in a variety of shows including Musicals, Pantomimes, UK Tours and Audio Drama.

• Helen

  

  Teacher

  Another of our freelance teachers, Helen has recently graduated from The Brighton Academy of Performing Arts where she achieved a first in her Performing Arts degree. She has been performing since the age of 4 and loves to help young performers discover their passion for being on stage. There is no feeling quite like it!

  What do you love most about teaching Musical Theatre?I love seeing the childrens confidence grow and seeing all their different personalities while they’re performing.

• Isla

  

  Office Manager isla@liveloveperform.co.uk

  Isla is our fantastic Office Manager, essentially acting as our ‘front-of-house’. She manages the majority of our new enquiries, as well as ensuring that our existing customer base is served to the highest standard.

  What do you enjoy most about working at Live Love Perform?It was evident right from when I first began working here, that Live Love Perform embraces being different compared to traditional dance schools offerings; the energy, friendliness, and enthusiam for teaching students is addictive!

• James

  

  Tech Guru james@liveloveperform.co.uk

  For a fresh and re-imagined dance school, you need a tech guru who can help support its (digital) foundations. James comes from an IT background so is perfectly suited to the job!

  James is responsible for the website, and general running of our systems. And in case you were wondering, he can dance!

  Where you're not producing amazing IT creations for Live Love Perform, what do you like doing?I'm out on my bike a lot, exploring the beautiful Surrey countryside!