Amanda Keating
School Principle
Trained:
Ballet West and The Urdang Academy.
Performance Credits:
Swan lake, Nutcracker, Coppelia, Canon (TV Advert), Into The Woods.
MOVE IT (Main stage opening year).
Amanda's passion and focus has always been teaching and over the last 7 years Amanda has built up her reputation with excellent exam results. She has entered hundreds of students for examinations in ISTD Ballet and Modern, LCM Musical Theatre and LAMDA Acting and Verse and Pros as well as preparing students for their Dance GCSE and A-LEVEL. Her skills lie in tutoring aspiring performers and helping them to gain the credits to achieve vocational college and university places in Dance and Musical Theatre. Her affiliation with the Vocational schools allows her to keep current with industry's ever changing requirements. This is why she has enjoyed such success, with her students gaining College and University placements at the most successful Schools, such as The Urdang Academy, London Studio Centre, Central School of Ballet, The Place and Laine Theatre Arts to name a few. Her past students have then gone onto working in the Industry in Shows such as Matilda, Once the Musical, Billy Elliot and Matthew Bourne's Junior company.
Amanda now wants to cultivate this at The PAD and to bring her mentoring and course skills to the students here. She offers one to one guidance as well as a team of carefully selected professionals to achieve outstanding results.
STUDENT PERFORMANCES CREATED BY AMANDA
Daniel Keating
School Director
Trained:
Self taught.
Performance Credits:
X-Factor, BRITS, MTV Tour.
Daniel was born and raised in Dunstable, before moving to London in his early 20s to train as a dancer. With a focus on Breaking, or B-Boying, he has gone on to dance in lots of places for lots of people. He started at the world famous Ministry of Sound nightclub, where he was a resident for two years. In 1999, at the Millen nium party at the Dome, Daniel was one of 50 Ministry of Sound dancers perform ing in front of more than 50,000 people at the stroke of midnight.
From there, Daniel has travelled throughout Europe, performing in front of thousands of people. His dancing credits include dancing for Jamarique, DJ Sonique, Top of the Pops, MTV, MTV Club Tours, the BRIT Awards, X Factor, Cher Lloyd, Cheryl Cole, Plan B and Take That. He’s also been recruited to perform at numerous private, celebrity parties, for stars including Jack Black, Uma Thurman and Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
Daniel has been teaching dance for the past 15 years in many schools across southeast England, including plenty in London.
STUDENT PERFORMANCES CREATED BY DANIEL
Becca Christer
Studio Manager, Exams officer &
ISTD Teacher
Trained:
CS Dance Centre – College of Teacher Training. Bird College of Dance and Performing Arts Pre-Vocational.
Performance Credits:
Becca began dancing at the age of three and has never looked back. She completed many dance exams in IDTA, RAD and finally her vocational qualifications with the ISTD. It was from here that she wanted to pursue her teaching training within this exam board.
Becca first began to take her training seriously by completing a BTec Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing Arts Dance, at Amersham College, then continuing studying at Bird College of Dance and Performing Arts. After deciding to pursue teaching above anything else, Becca completed 3 DDEs in Ballet, Tap and Modern. She is now beginning study towards Licentiate in Tap.
Becca began her teaching career by running her own school, The Dance House, for two years before bringing her students across to On Pointe Dance Academy where the young dancers have gone from strength to strength under the varied and experienced teaching staff. She now has a permanent role within the both schools as a teacher, as well as being Course Manager for The PAD. Becca is very keen to help both schools grow within the community and delighted to be able to help offer so many young people a place in a positive and growing dance community.