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ELISA ROBERTS, RADdip AISTD DDE

I started dancing at the age of 3 at my local dance school. At age 9 I successfully passed an intensive audition and was selected to be a member of The Royal Ballet Junior Associate program. Studying with the company for 4 years both at their London headquarters and White Lodge in Richmond Park. At 16 I was awarded a full scholarship at The Stella Mann Theatre School where I completed a 3-year dance and performance diploma. I also completed my teaching diplomas in RAD Ballet, ISTD Ballet, ISTD Tap and ISTD modern gaining distinction in all four. I also received student of the year in 1996. After a couple of years of various professional performance jobs, I decided teaching was my forte. I had 6 years of teaching experience before opening SOEL DANCE ACADEMY with Sophie.

 

Teaching and helping children is one of my biggest passions and achievements. I absolutely love watching the children improve week to week, building strong teacher/student bonds and watching them grow into teenagers and adults. Many of my students stay in touch and have become friends and I am now starting to teach their children!!!

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Founder

Sophie Webb

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Teacher

Amber Avianco

Amber first started her dance training at Soel Dance Academy with Sophie and Elisa, later going on to train professionally at Millennium Performing Arts in London receiving a Diploma in dance. 

Performing Credits include: 


Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime (The Compass, Ickenham); The Santa Show (The Compass, Ickenham); Haunted Howl’o’ween Live 2019! (CWOA); LegoFriends to the Rescue, (LegoLand Windsor); Gruffalo Summer Party (CWOA); Aladdin Pantomime, (The Compass, Ickenham); Halloween Flash mob, (CWOA); Sleeping Beauty Pantomime, (The Curve, Slough); Penguins of Madagascar Live, (CWOA); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pantomime, (The Compass, Ickenham); Trick or Treat Wood, (CWOA); Podaa Podi, (Film); Onepiece Jump In, (Internet Advert); LV= Harlequins Cheerleader, (Twickenham Stadium).

 

Amber has taught at Soel Dance Academy for many years now and absolutely loves all the students there. She is an ISTD Modern qualified teacher and would love to get her other teaching qualifications in the future. She is currently auditioning and working professionally in the industry, which gives her a fresh and current touch on her choreography. 
 

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Teacher

Verity Holt

Both Elisa and Sophie taught Verity from a young age, when SoEl started in 2005 she was eager to start and help as an assistant teacher.
In 2010 Verity was accepted at the University of Chichester where her love for contemporary dance and choreography began. Graduating in 2013 with a 2.1 class BA Hons degree in dance.
After graduating she returned to SoEl as a teacher taking on the ISTD classes in both Modern and Tap.
In 2014 Verity successfully auditioned for the Balletboyz Dancers Course, where she worked along side the dancers of The Balletboyz Company furthering her contemporary training.
In 2015 she started her teacher training with the ISTD where she gained her DDI diploma in both Modern and Tap.
As well as teaching Verity is developing her career in choreography. Recently choreographing her second professional pantomime and looking forward to future projects.
Verity loves being a part of the SoEl family and teaching all the wonderful students! 

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Teacher

Lucy Freeman

I am a professional dancer, I trained for three years at the prestigious musical theatre school Bird College gaining a first class degree in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre. Since then I have toured across Germany with the Tina Turner Musical as dance captain. I have a huge passion for teaching and have just started my CBTS Royal Academy of Dance teacher training to become a qualified RAD Ballet teacher.
I was a student at SoEl since I was seven so to be a part of the teaching faculty is a great honour and to meet the new generations of SoEl with the same passion for dance as myself is fantastic. 

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