About us
We at The Dance Academy pride ourselves on being a fun and friendly team, able to encompass everybody's talents and attributes in a personal manner in order to develop strength and skills.
The Staff
Principal - Michelle Hughes
Michelle has a wide variety of experience in the world of show business which includes hit records, international television shows, world concert tours and she has interviewed many of the world’s most popular superstars.
Michelle trained at the acclaimed Phil Winston’s
Theatre works and then went on to her first stage performance as one of
Jonathon Wilkes’s Space Girls at The Pleasure Beach,
It was during her time with Girl Thing that Michelle guest presented for the number 1 channel for kids – Nickelodeon and, as a result, was made a full-time presenter for the channel. During this time, Michelle interviewed such well-known names as Sir Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood and the cast from the blockbuster trilogy, Lord of the Rings; Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst from Spiderman; Rupert Grint from Harry Potter and from the music world, such stars as Westlife, Blue, Lemar, Emma Bunton and the Sugababes.
Michelle’s most recent project is her own
successful dance school, The Dance Academy, in
Senior Teacher - Emma Jayne Sheldon