Diploma of Dance Teaching graduation 2020

The Diploma of Dance Teaching 2018-2020 graduation was held virtually on Saturday 24 October.

Streamed from Upper School in Covent Garden, Mark Annear, Head of Training & Access, and Karen Berry, Teacher Training Manager, were joined by guest speakers Linda Jasper and Peter Lovatt.

Christopher Powney ‘presented’ the 2018-2020 graduates with their certificates, Paul Farrell gave an insightful student speech about the journey they took together and Christopher Rodrigues CBE, the School’s Chairman, gave a specially pre-recorded closing speech.

Despite the very different style of graduation to which we are used to, Pippa Cobbing, former DDT tutor and Primary Steps manager, summed it up perfectly:

‘Even though we were not in the same space together it felt like a shared experience and I appreciated, and was moved by, all of the speeches. A very special cohort indeed, it will be fascinating to follow their careers.’

This year’s graduates are:

Vocational strand

Paula Cabral Stojko

Giacomo Ciriaci

Paul Farrell

Layla Harrison

Sophie Martin

Adrian Navarro Both

Pippa Newton

Megan Pay

Nao Sakuma

Clara Stone

Shaun Walters

Educational strand

Amy Clare Giancarlo

Abigail Cova

The Teacher Training team would like to thank everyone involved in the event and wish our graduates the very best for the future.