Ballet · Contemporary · Creative movement

With Amy Thake

Amy Thake carrying a white bench across a dark stage

Classes, private lessons and workshops.
For children, adults and older adults.

Step into the studio

For first steps.
For fresh starts.
For a life that keeps moving.

Trained at the Royal Ballet School, Amy has performed principal and soloist roles across Europe and is a dancer and Assistant Rehearsal Director with Yorke Dance Project. She now brings that experience to teaching ballet, contemporary and creative movement in Hertfordshire.

Amy and a dance partner leaping in a bright rehearsal studio

Classes, lessons & workshops.

Classes, one-to-one teaching and workshops. Find the starting point that feels like you.

Children

Ballet, contemporary and creative movement for children. Tell Amy a little about your child, their age and any dance experience, and explore what might suit them.

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Adults

Explore ballet, contemporary and creative movement as an adult. Whether dance is familiar or something you are curious about, start a conversation with Amy about what you are looking for.

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Older adults

Dance and creative movement for older adults. Speak to Amy about your interests, experience and any practical considerations so you can explore the right setting together.

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Private lessons

One-to-one teaching, including exam preparation and auditions. Share your goals with Amy to discuss a lesson shaped around what you want to work on.

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Workshops

Workshops and holiday courses in ballet, contemporary and creative movement. Enquire about a group, school or project, and tell Amy what you have in mind.

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Teaching across Hertfordshire. Enquire for current venues, days and times.

In rehearsal.

Amy rehearsing Martha Graham’s Deep Song with Yorke Dance Project.

Her teaching encourages individuality and personal joy in movement.

Film: Yorke Dance Project / @tappon.photography

Amy held in an inverted lift by a dance partner, photographed in black and white

A dancer.
An educator.
A space to be you.

Amy nurtures the person as well as the dancer. Her approach gives every student room to explore, create and find their own joy in movement.

Meet Amy

Your next step
starts here.

Tell Amy a little about yourself, or the person you are enquiring for. A conversation is a good place to begin.

Start a conversation

Amy in performance

Amy arching backwards with her arms open on stage