NBS
The Faculty
The Principal, Patricia McDonald FRAD, LISTD, has
some forty years experience in training dancers for professional
careers in the fields of classical ballet and commercial theatre.
She is a Member of the Executive and Artistic Committees of the
Royal Academy of Dancing, for which she is also a Major Examiner,
which has given her a broad knowledge of professional dance training
and standards worldwide. She reconstituted and re-launched the school
under its present name in 1977 and subsequently led it through the
process of change and development to its present internationally
recognised status. In doing so she has attracted, and in turn had
the help of, a dedicated team of highly qualified and talented teachers
and musicians, each being an established specialist in one or more
of those fields of dance, music and drama, covered by the courses
on offer at NBS.
Some on the faculty have had years of professional
stage experience on which they can draw to prepare their students
for the physical and mental demands of their chosen career. Others
have the technical expertise and theoretical knowledge, which they
can impart to the student and give a deeper insight into the range
of dance styles and disciplines and their history which is so crucial
to a creative approach to dance. Yet others have biological expertise
and understanding of the physical and mental demands of the dance
profession, so as to be able to prepare the dedicated would-be dancer
to meet them. The academic faculty is assisted in the day to day
school programme by an experienced team of administrators, technicians
and other support staff.
All work together at Northern Ballet School to enable
the aspirant student to become the artistically accomplished, technically
skilled, well educated and assured performer or teacher demanded
by the theatre dance industry of today and tomorrow and which is
the hallmark of the NBS graduate.
The Faculty are:
Patricia McDonald
FRAD LISTD
Founder/Principal
Philip Radcliffe
BA Hons (Arch), Dip TP RIBA,MRTPI
Administrator
Eric Carpenter
Head of Dept. Jazz/Theatre Dance
Sarah Dickinson
ARAD (Adv.T.Dip) LISTD AISTD FIDTA
Dance Teacher
David Bradford
MB (Hons), Mancheser
Vocal Studies Tutor
Bill Eley
Artist in Residence, Library Technician
Jenny Eley
BA Lib & Inf.,Cert Ed
Librarian
Helen Francis
ABSM ARCM LRAM
Vocal Studies Tutor
Jacqueline Gray
NBS D.T.Dip., Rad T.Cert.
FISTD AISTD
Dance Teacher & Examiner
Oliver Hamilton
Cert. GSMD, Undergraduate RNCM
Accompanist, Piano
Léa Havas
Cert. Ballet,Theatre School of Sâo Paulo
Choreographer/Dance Teacher
Hayley Johnson
RSA SNVQ
Pilates Instructor
Val Jones
FISTD
Dance Teacher & Examiner
George King
B.Mus (Hons)
Accompanist, Piano
Simon Lea
B.Mus (Hons)
Accompanist, Piano
Kate Lewis
Registrar
Kerry Livingstone
MA (Ballet Studies), BA, BA (Hons), LRAD, AISTD
Course Coordinator
Gavin Meredith
M Mus., BA (Hons), LTCL, ALCM
Accompanist, Piano
David Needham
AISTD, ANADT
Head of Productions
Choreographer/Dance Teacher
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