The Faculty
Our faculty are current and ex-professionals at the top of their fields, with a wealth of performance and teaching experience and knowledge; our teachers are guaranteed to inspire and bring out the very best of you!
Sadie Morgan
Ballet and CPD lessons for teachers faculty
Sadie trained at The Royal Ballet School (White Lodge) and Bush Davies School.
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Following graduation, she danced professionally for many years, working in the West End and with touring companies, including the QE2 for Jean Ann Ryan Productions, principal dancer with Opera North, Carousel (The Royal National Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre, West End) and Oklahoma (UK Tour) to mention a few.
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Sadie has extensive teaching experience and is a triple Senior ISTD Examiner in the Ballet, Tap and Modern Theatre faculties and is an international lecturer for the ISTD. In this capacity, she has toured and taught in many countries of the globe, namely Malaysia, Japan, Mexico, Australia, South Africa and most of Europe. She is also a committee member of the ISTD Modern faculty and part of the ISTD Teaching Team for the Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 Modern Syllabi.
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She has previously taught at various UK Performing Arts Colleges, including Bird College and Liberatus, and she is now Head of Ballet and Patron at Morea Performing Arts.
Katie Morea
Contemporary, Creative and CPD lessons for teachers Faculty
Principal at Morea Performing Arts, Katie trained at the London Contemporary Dance School and the Alvin Ailey School (NYC).
Katie is a Fellow and Senior Examiner for the ISTD Modern and the Tap Faculties. She is part of the team that created the ISTD Children's Modern Theatre Grades and the recently launched vocational Advanced Two Modern. She is also the creator of part of the syllabus for the ISTD Vocational level Advanced Two Tap. Also, she is creator of many of the new ISTD Advanced 1 Modern Syllabus.
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Katie also studied at the Limon, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham Studios in New York.
She was Head of Contemporary and Composition at Bird College where she was Principal Choreographer and Dance Director for the Bird Theatre Company.
She has also taught at Elmhurst Ballet School, London Contemporary Dance School and the London College of Dance, all professional dance schools.
As an International lecturer for the ISTD, Katie delivers the syllabi and trains teachers all around the world. She teaches and choreographs for professional companies and has worked in Italy, Cyprus, Norway, Portugal, Malta, Germany, Greece, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Canada, Trinidad, Mexico and the UK.
Katie is a former member of the ISTD Modern Theatre Dance Faculty Committee.
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Many of her former students are now Principals, Heads of Department and Faculty in many colleges around the UK.
Finally, Katie advised on the creation of the ISTD Contemporary syllabus and her students from Morea Performing Arts were the cast for its worldwide premier in 2019.
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Katie is artistic director of The Dance Summer School in Ireland.
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