Lucy Harries, IDTA Modern Jazz & Tap
I’ve been at Hype for 18 years and have now worked my way up to teaching at the place where it all started for me.
My dance training started with Ballet classes and Modern Jazz at 5 years old. After that, I started Tap, Acro, competitive dance and completing exams, through which I now hold my Advanced One exam in Modern Jazz. After the pandemic, I started attending classes again and building on my dancing as an adult, which I continue to do. I then started to train to become a teacher under the guidance of Anna Olejnicki. After many months of hard work I earned my qualification as a Level 4 International Dance Teachers’ Association (opens in a new tab) (IDTA) Contemporary Modern Jazz teacher and now I lead the Primary/G1 Modern Jazz and Tap classes.
Dance has always been an outlet for me; when my personal life gets stressful, dance has always been the best way for me to forget about everything and be free to move.
In between classes and teaching, Alice Grayson and I spend time together each week to create choreography for exams, shows and competition dances and often help to teach it to the students. I am currently training for my Level 4 IDTA Tap teaching qualification, taking classes every week and still perform when I can, which I love to do.