Our Team
Meet our high qualified and super friendly teachers <3
Miss Nina
Nina Monteiro, our Principal Teacher, was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At the age of six, she was introduced to ballet at the Grupo Cultural de Dança – Ilha, and fell in love. Whilst ballet was her passion, she also took lessons in Jazz, Tap and Hip Hop.
During her ten years at the GCDI, Miss Nina was chosen to perform in every show and frequently represented them at national and international festivals and competitions with huge successes in both technical and artistic performance.
In 2006, at the age of 20, the School Director Patricia Marques, invited Miss Nina to work as her rehearsal assistant and ballet teacher. It was as if ballet had defined her, but teaching had taught her to make a difference.
Miss Nina’s professional dance career began in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2007 at the Balé Teatro Guaíra, where she performed various classical and contemporary pieces such as The Nutcracker and Treze Gestos de um Corpo by Olga Roriz.
In 2009 Nina moved to Germany to work with Theater Nordhausen Ballett where she was able to co-create many of the leading roles she was given.
She then moved to England in 2011 which now feels like home. In 2013 Nina had the opportunity of returning to the stage as a guest artist with Koblenz Ballett in Germany, by invitation of Steffen Fuchs, director of the company. In this short contract, Miss Nina danced a role created for her and shared the stage with artists from all over the world.
Miss Nina has been fortunate to work as ballet tutor at a number of dance schools and studios in London before being presented with a beautiful opportunity: to lead her own dance school.
Kate Durrant
Kate Durrant trained at London studio Centre. She started her career as a performer working with a variety of artists and companies such as The Royal Opera, Sol Dans Company, Turbulance Dance and Rough-Cut Dance Theatre.
Kate is an experienced dance educator working with children and young people through to adult learners. She teaches across the community, vocational and pre-vocational sectors facilitating sessions in contemporary technique and creative dance. She has taught a Bodywork Company Dance Studios, DanceEast Centre for Advanced Training (CAT), Greenwich Dance, Tring Park Performing Arts, Trinity Laban Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) and Urdang Academy.
In 2017 Kate joined the research and development team for the ISTD Contemporary Syllabus with Ross McKim. Leading into becoming a course lecturer for the syllabus. Kate is currently teaching at Performers College and Trinity Laban.
Kofi Williams
Kofi began his dance education at the age of six in his hometown of London, studying ballet and tap dancing. After moving to Seattle, he continued his studies in tap dance. At sixteen, he began training under choreographer Josh Scribner in tap dancing. In 2016, he became a full member of Alchemy Tap Project and has been featured in two dances released online: “Stick To It” and “The Muse’s Dream.” Kofi also travels to various tap conventions and festivals around the world to learn from industry veterans and has taken classes with accomplished choreographers such as Savion Glover, Sarah Reich, and Ted Louis Levy. Additionally, he has participated in other professional shows, including the Seattle Theater Group’s 2018 Dance This performance directed by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and Derick Grant. For the past seven years, Kofi has focused on teaching the next generation of dancers and choreographing competitive dance pieces.
Anita Garcia Grosse
Anita Garcia Grosse, started dancing at the age of 3. She began studying classical dance using the method of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD). She completed her professional training as a contemporary dancer at the Balleteatro in Porto in 2014, and flew to Cyprus to start her academic career in 2017 at the Faculty of dance GAU-PERA. She has lived in London since 2018, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) in contemporary dance and Master of choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatory of music and dance. She currently teaches classical ballet and creative dance as well as choreography at various dance studios in London such as Canada water studios, Viv'art Movement Academy (VMA) and Cecile Silcock Ballet Studio. She teaches ballet for adults at the Cecile Silcock Ballet Studio, which she plans to expand to other studios and include cardio and choreography work in the class itself. In the future, she intends to teach contemporary dance to adults and children and be a coach for dance competitions.
She also currently teaches classical ballet and creative dance to children in nurseries.
Mallory Silva
Mallory is a passionate acrobatics coach and professional circus artist, specialising in tumbling. A graduate of the prestigious National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne (2023), Mallory brings a blend of technical precision, creative flair, and a love for movement to every class. With a focus on building strength, flexibility, and confidence, she creates a supportive and inspiring environment where students of all levels can push their limits and discover what their bodies are capable of.