About Us

Keely-Anna dancing Swan Lake with the Manchester City Ballet

Keely-Anna began dancing at age 6. She studied ballet with Sylvia Lorden at the Grosvenor House School of Dance and passed her RAD grade 8 examination with a distinction. She has also taken RAD vocational examinations, passing Advanced 1 with high merit, so will be able to teach the RAD syllabus to an advanced level.

After a number of successful auditions, Keely-Anna chose to train in Classical Ballet and Musical Theatre at the prestigious Northern Ballet School in Manchester. She followed this with a programme of study which led to the award of Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies with the Royal Academy of Dance.

Keely-Anna is also a fully qualified fitness professional and is registered with REPS. She has followed the Future Fit 'total immersion' course, where her qualifications include Advanced Personal Training, Exercise to Music, Step, Circuit Training, GP Referral, Core Stability, Beginners Pilates, Pilates Improvers, Torso Training, Choreography and Conditioning, Exercise for Children, and Nutrition.

From her experience in both dance and fitness training Keely-Anna has developed a unique philosophy of exercise. She believes that the love of dance and music can motivate us all into exercising well, and that dance can give us the core, total-body fitness that other exercise routines miss out. Furthermore, her fitness training has given her a passionate belief that dance must be taught safely, hence her focus on warm-up, cool-down and the importance of correct technique.

This philosophy of exercise applies even to the youngest among us, and Keely-Anna's classes start with babies as young as three months old. Our love of dance springs from our initial love of music, which needs to be nurtured from the start of a child's life. Our Baby Bops and Toddly Bops classes provide a foundation for a life's healthy participation in exercise, and our later classes progress the child towards a robust adult health and fitness.