TEACHING FACULTY 2020/2021

Miss HArriet - Musical theatre & singing

Harriet graduate with a Commercial Music Degree from Canterbury Christchurch University in 2015. She has professionally performed in theatres and music venues around the UK - backing vocalist for Neil Diamond tribute ‘The Neil Diamond Story’, lead vocalist in country tour ‘Strictly Nashville’ & singing in other Kent based function bands.
Harriet enjoys sharing her passion, skills and vocal techniques with her students. Her positive and inspiring approach to teaching aims to not only give good vocal direction and technique but to build a confident performer and artist.

JOSIE LEE - Street/commercial & lyrical

Josie grew up in Deal and at 15, gained a full scholarship to train professionally in Musical Theatre & Dance at Millennium Performing Arts in London. Since graduating in 2010, she has performed worldwide in all different areas of the industry. Credits include ‘Carmen’ UK Tour (Dance Captain), Lead Vocalist for P&O, AIDA and Celestyal cruises, ‘Lily’ In ‘Money makes the world go round’ and ‘The Jungle Book’ UK Tour. Josie also works as a freelance dance teacher, competition judge and choreographer and is really looking forward to getting started at HDC

MISS ASHLEY - ISTD MODERN, STREET, JAZZ, LYRICAL

Ashley started dancing at the age of 7, where she trained in Modern, Street, Ballet, Tap, Musical theatre and Irish dance. Ashley performed in many shows and events during her time training. As she grew older she found a love for teaching & choreography and helped to assist younger students within dance classes since the age of 11. Ashley is currently working towards her ISTD DDE Dance qualification in Modern Theatre and can not wait to pass on her passion and knowledge of dance to the next generation of dancers!

MISS Jasmine - ballet & Tap

Jasmine started dancing at the age of 5, where her love for dance started. She has achieved her ISTD graded exams in Ballet, Tap and Modern. She graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2018 with a BA Honours degree in Dance Education. Following this Jasmine graduated with a master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Management at CCCU in 2020. Throughout the years Jasmine has had the opportunity to perform at Her Majesty’s Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, and Sadlers Wells Theatre in London, as well as Disneyland Paris.

After studying Jasmine has found her love for teaching. She loves being able to inspire the younger generation, seeing them grow and develop is the most rewarding job. She believes she has the best job in the world.