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Who's Who

Kate Durrant

Kate Durrant is an experienced dance educator working with children and young people through to adult learners. She started her career as a performer working with a variety of artists and companies such as The Royal Opera, Sol Dans Company, Turbulance Dance and Rough Cut Dance Theatre. Moving into teaching full time in 2011.

Kate teaches across the community, vocational and pre-vocational sectors facilitating sessions in contemporary technique and creative dance. She is a passionate advocate of using dance as a tool to build skills for life, going beyond the dance studio. Incorporating coaching tools to empower; creating fun, safe and courageous environments to learn and dance together in.

Holly Smith

Holly is a London based dance teacher, producer and administrator. Gaining a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; whilst studying Holly discovered her passion for dance teaching and education through working on childrens classes at Chisenhale Dance Space and Trinity Laban.

After graduating Holly joined the Learning and Participation team at Trinity Laban where she gained a wealth of experience of working in education and community settings with children and young people, including young people with additional needs and disabilities, all the way up to teaching adults, older adults and adults with acquired brain and stroke injuries.

Now a freelance artist, Holly teaches for Trinity Laban, the Royal Academy of Dance, DanceWest, Truefitt Collective and supports classes for Greenwich Dance, working across schools, community classes and private dance studios. Alongside her teaching work Holly is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Truefitt Collective and Associate Programme and Primary Steps Coordinator at the Royal Ballet School and was previously Participation Producer for RISE Youth Dance.