Highly qualified assistant teachers

To ensure the best possible tuition and plentiful opportunities for individual attention to pupils, Liz has on her team 3 other highly qualified instructors with a lot of experience and all are in regular attendance and all participate in teaching sessions with great patience and enthusiasm. This is a school positively overflowing with talent!

Liz Hannah – Principal Teacher

The founder and principal teacher of the school is Liz Hannah. During the course of her dancing career this talented and progressive teacher has achieved the highest qualifications that dance is able to bestow. For those who like to record such details a few of her achievements are listed below.

Fellow & Examiner: UKA Dance
Life Member: British Association of Teachers of Dancing
Member: Guild of Professional Teachers of Dancing
Championship adjudicator
Director, Member of the Council of Management: UKA Dance

What’s more, Liz is famed for great energy and a refreshing approach to teaching. She achieves results through gentle persuasion, patient explanation and demonstration and in great good humour.

Liz is also a Master Practitioner in NLP (Neuro-Linguistics Programming), Timeline Therapy and Hypnotherapy.

Aileen

Hi, I’m Aileen, and I’m a part of the teaching team at Phoenix Dance School.

I have been teaching with Liz since the inception of Phoenix Dance – I don’t look that old!

I enjoy teaching and helping pupils learn to dance and have a calm quiet approach to enable them to have fun and gain enjoyment in their learning.

I also attend dance conference and events to enable me to keep my knowledge and skills up to date.

I am also a qualified holistic therapist, and provide aromatherapy massage, reflexology and hot stone massage

Babs

Hi, I’m babs and part of the teaching team at the Phoenix Dance School.

I also look after the admin side of the school. I’m also honoured as the “best tea maker in the business”

I enjoy helping pupils that need to sort out their dance technique or a gentle tweak in a variation.

Linda

Hi. I’m Linda
I am an ex competitor and under the tuition of Liz achieved finalist at national level in both Latin and Ballroom. I have been a qualified teacher with Liz and the team since 2009.

I am also a Registered Nurse. Dancing has the best all round Health benefits. Not only for physical fitness and mobility but for mental health well being. Dance is now known to slow down the progression and onset of dementia and parkinsons disease.

I enjoy dancing and helping others to develop their own dance skills. It’s a great stress reliever at the end of a busy day.