‘Dani Dee School of Dance’ specialises in Street Dance, Hip Hop, and other forms of Contemporary Dance and has been established for a period of twelve years.
‘Danielle Dee Stephens‘ started dancing at the age of four where she trained in Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz at The Grand Theatre, Swansea.
There she performed in numerous pantomines and shows. She went on to join West Glamorgan Dance Company where she acquired a love for Contemporary Dance. After completing all her dance exams with Honours at the Grand went on to Gorseinon College to gain her BTEC in Performing Arts, then on to ‘London Contemporary Dance School’ where she gained her BA degree. Living in London for five years, she made appearances on stage and TV for various Dance Companies whilst being a member of cheerleaders ‘Wildcats’ for ‘London Towers’ Basketball Team. Further afield, she travelled to Hong Kong for six months where she choreographed and performed at a top hotel.
Going from one major city to another, felt it time to come home. Danielle has taught/choreographed for many schools, colleges and companies since being back in Swansea, but having a daughter five years ago, she made a decision to focus on her own company and is thoroughly enjoying it’s challenge and rewards. And 12 years down the line and 320 children on the books has proven she can run a successful school.
‘Kennedy Harris’ has been teaching at ‘Dani Dee School of Dance’ for about two years now and is a popular teacher. She started dancing at 12 years old where she joined an after school club taught by ‘Zoe Murphy’. This group went on to become a very successful competing team called ‘Bodyshox’. They competed in numerous nationwide competitions and after qualifying in the ‘International Dance Organisation’ Welsh Hip Hop Championships went on to represent Wales in the World Hip Hop Championships.
She currently dances with Hip Hop small team ‘Tornado’ which placed 2nd in Advanced over 18′s section in Welsh Hip Hop championships in 2010. She also dances with larger formation team ‘Torn I.D’ who are current Welsh Champions in over 18′s formation section. Both teams will be competing and representing Wales in the World Hip Hop Championships in October 2011.
‘Kirsty Lee Jones’ has been dancing ballet and modern since the age of 4 and has been dancing with Dani since the age of 8. A loyal member of ‘Dani Dee School of Dance’ was keen to become a dance teacher herself.
She attended ‘Gorseinon College’ where she gained her BTEC National Diploma in ‘Performing Arts’ and an A in GCSE Dance. She then went on to study to become a qualified teacher with the UKA (United Kingdom Alliance).
Kirsty ‘loves teaching dance and couldn’t imagine doing anything else’.
‘Rebecca Williams’ has been teaching for ‘Dani Dee School of Dance’ for just over 2 years now. Another ex pupil of Dani, rebecca has been dancing since the age of 3 and teaching since the age of 18. Rebecca is a fully trained fitness instructor alongside being a dance teacher.
Having experience in many mediums of dance and working with a wide variety of participants, rebecca is very good with children and at getting the best out of our young dancers.She also teaches our Adult ‘Zumba and legs, bums and tums’ class. She is also very good at getting the adults motivated.
‘Zoe Jarvis’ has been dancing from a young age where she trained at the ‘Grand Theatre’ and in 1999 qualified with the UKA (United Kingdom Alliance) in freestyle disco, then going on to do the UKA Associate qualification in Hip Hop which also allows her to train and teach dancers to qualify to teach with the UKA. She has taught all over South and South West Wales for all ages and all levels. She has coached teams which have gone on to qualify for the IDO World Hip Hop championships and also achieved several streetdance accolades and titles. Her favourite hip hop styles are commercial, waacking and social hip hop dance.
Zoe studied for an (MA) in creative and media writing passing in 2006 which she has since written several Hip Hop Theatre Productions. One such production was ‘Teenage Love Affair’ performed by ‘Dani Dee School of Dance’ in ‘The Grand Theatre’ Swansea in 2009. Other productions were ‘O to the Z’ and a Hip Hop Musical ‘Streetlife’ which was performed at the ‘Lyric Theatre’ Carmarthen during the summer.
‘Ricky George’ self taught himself a few years ago outside his house! He has since gone on to achieve amazing things.
In 2010, he performed at ‘Catwalk Rocks’ in Oceana, Swansea, a catwalk show for Loreal in Cardiff, the ‘Breakin Convention’, ‘Breakin the Bay’, the ‘Roxy Jam’, ‘Swansea Got Talent’ and at the freshers balls for ‘Swansea University’. Crews included Cardiff All Stars, Primal Steps, Street b-boys and PFB.
So far, in 2011 he has performed for a catwalk show in Newport, Beach Break Live, Camden Crawl – London, won 1st place in the ’3 valleys championship’, performed with the Cardiff Kings and the ‘All Sorts Tour’. You may even see him on the next series of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. Crew’s currently are ‘PFB’, ‘Primal Steps’, ‘Search and Destroy’, ‘Zulus’ and ‘Battle Holex Crew World Wide’.
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