Meet the Team

Tallah Dance Academy

Tamara and Charlotte set up Tallah Dance Academy in 2018 to offer industry training for the young people of Mansfield.

Our vision for the Academy is to be original and unique and prepare students for the versatile dance world.

Tallah strives to celebrate all students and abilities and offer young people new and vibrant opportunities that fuse dance, music, modelling, art, make-up, professional encounters, shows and a bespoke experience for each child.

Meet The Principals of the Academy

Charlotte

Charlotte trained in IDTA dance awards at a Ravenshead school of dance and AJ school of Dance and taught IDTA tap whilst training.

She completed A-Levels and went on to receive her degree in ‘Dance performance’ from Birmingham school of dance and acting with Coventry university and then went on to study a Masters degree in Dance Education and science.

During this time, she completed an internship with Phoenix dance and trained heavily within the contemporary sector including with Ace dance, Charlie Morrissey and with Sharon Watson.

Charlotte performed nationally within companies and then went on to complete her PGCE.

During this time, Charlotte went to India to study Ashtanga Yoga and became a beginner teacher. Upon her return, Charlotte continued studying whilst teaching at several dance schools, fitness facilities and leisure centres , leading in subjects including jazz, contemporary, street and team dance.

Charlotte has always had a love for dance and a love for sharing dance with young people. In education, Charlotte was initially employed at the Joseph Whitaker school and taught dance gcse and btec performing arts whilst finishing her PGCE and then went on to become Head of Dance at The Samworth Church Academy; which she has been for over 10 years. In this time, Charlotte has completed her middle leadership national certificate and expanded her teaching repertoire through BGU and NATD. It was in 2018 when Charlotte and Tamara decided to elevate their love for dance and create TALLAH.
Tallah was started with an emphasis and vision to be distinctivley different to a traditional dance school, offering dance photography and film experiences as a core practice and also training in contemporary and urban studies as foundation subjects.

Megan

Megan started her journey with dance at the age of 4 at a dance school in Derbyshire. In her early childhood Megan competed at many dance festivals and won several awards and she quickly knew that dance was going to be her forever career. At age 10 she successfully gained a place at Tring Park School for Performing Arts where she was a boarding student until the age of 19. Whilst at Tring Park Megan worked with many amazing teachers and choreographers such as Anthony Van Laast CBE and Matthew Bourne’s ‘New Adventures’ Company. She also performed in over 60 shows with the English National Ballet in their productions of ‘The Nutcracker’ & ‘Swan Lake’ in The Royal Albert Hall and The London Coliseum.
Since graduating Megan has been working as a professional dancer onboard several different cruise lines. A highlight of Megan’s performance int career was being part of Norwegian Cruise Lines cast of ‘Swing! The Broadway musical’ where she worked with the original Broadway choreographer Lynne Taylor Corbette. She has travelled to each corner of the world and now she is here at Tallah to pass on her experience to the next generation of performers!

Holly

Holly has trained under the IDTA since the age of 3 in genres such as: ballet, tap, modern jazz, theatre craft, acro, commercial and contemporary. She has completed examinations in all core subjects to Advanced 2 level. Holly began her teaching journey at age 18. She holds level 3 diplomas for dance teaching in ballet and tap and a level 4 diploma for dance teaching in ballet. 

She has been competing since age 5 winning many awards and several bursary finals. However, her biggest achievement is winning the IDTA Ballet Grades, Theatre Dance Award in 2020. Holly’s favourite subjects are commercial, contemporary and acro but has a strong passion for all genres.

Guest Teacher’s

George Fryer

George has a background in a variety of dance styles including freestyle and street. He was a competitive dancer from a young age and danced around the UK. Noticed for his talent at 15, George moved to Liverpool where he studied at LIPA institute of performing arts and obtained a Btec qualification.
George then went on to train at The Addict Dance Academy where he obtained his BA degree qualification and has since worked professionally in national pantomimes and for commercial artists.


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