Viviana Durante

Artistic Director

Maggie Morris 

Interim Executive Director 

Maggie Morris is a dance management consultant, dance educator and co-founder of Safe in Dance International (SiDI). After initially training in the UK, she moved to New York where she joined the Murray Louis Dance Company touring internationally.  She also performed in musical theatre, film and television.  On her return to the UK Maggie took up the position of Artistic Director at Phoenix Dance Company.  On leaving Phoenix she developed her career a freelance director, educator, choreographer and dance education consultant.  She was also the Head of Undergraduate Studies at TrinityLaban, London and worked as Head of Dance and Acting Qualifications at Trinity College London.

Over the past 20 years, Maggie Morris’ focus has been as a dance educator and consultant. In 1999, she was appointed as a subject specialist inspector for all Dance and Drama Awards Provider’s in the UK and was appointed Her Majesty’s Inspector to the Office for Standards in Education (HMI) in July 2001.

As a consultant, Maggie has worked with a wide range of organisations such as the DfE, the ISTD, People Dancing, Trinity College London and with AT&T in the USA working with two other choreographers to develop a management training programme encouraging risk taking and creativity in business.  Her consultancy work has included leadership and management training on behalf of the DfE for the senior management of the Dance and Drama Awards Schools.  She has also been an advisor and consultant on course programmes and education management with a range of professional performing arts training institutions including London Studio Centre, SLP College, Mountview and Liverpool Theatre School. With Safe in Dance International she has developed, with her colleagues, a range of healthy Dance Practice Certificates and courses with the aim of promoting healthy dance practice worldwide. SiDI works with key international experts such as NIDMS, IADMS and Healthy Dancer Canada to ensure that the most recent research in dance science is brought to benefit those working in the studio as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Maggie has been privileged to sit on the boards of many dance organisations including Dance UK, the Arts Council Dance Panel, the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund and the English National Ballet School.  Maggie has written on the performing arts for publications in both the USA and Europe.  She has an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.

In 2021, Maggie was given the Jane Attenborough One Dance UK Industry Award for her contribution to the dance sector. She is thrilled to be working with the team at the English National Ballet school in this Interim Executive Director role. 

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Rowan initially trained in ballet and later contemporary dance graduating with a BA (Hons) from Rambert School. After sustaining a serious injury, she retired from dancing and turned to academia gaining an MA (Dist) and PhD in Dance Anthropology from the University of Roehampton where she worked in the Dance Department for nearly a decade. Now an Honorary Research Fellow at Roehampton, her research interest lies broadly in the sociology and anthropology of dance, with a particular interest in ballet. Her research has been supported by a number of awards and fellowships and in 2016 she was an AHRC Fellow at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, China. Her research has been published in Dance Research, Dance Chronical and by Oxford University Press. She has worked at the University of Roehampton, The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, University of Lincoln, Central School of Ballet and Rambert School and has been an invited or guest lecturer at many more including the University of Cambridge and Michigan State University. 

An avid social dancer, Rowan can be found dancing, teaching and choreographing vintage swing dances (lindy hop, balboa and others) around the world. 

Email: rowanmclelland@enbschool.org.uk 

Senri started dancing at the age of 4, and trained in Japan and England.

She then danced professionally for 18 years. Firstly, with the Peter Schaufuss Ballet in Denmark, for 2 years, and then with English National Ballet (ENB) for 16 years, where she performed corps de ballet, soloist and principal roles in major classical and contemporary works.

Senri has over 10 years of dance teaching experience and completed her Diploma in Dance Teaching from the British Ballet Organization (bbodance). She taught at institutions such as London Studio Centre, London Junior and Senior Ballet, Central School of Ballet, and conducted workshops for ENB. She was also nominated as a coach for the finalists in ENB’s Emerging Dancer Competition in 2016, 2017, and 2020. 

Michael Berkin trained at the Royal Ballet School and danced with Royal New Zealand Ballet, Ballet Ireland, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Northern Ballet. He performed group and soloist roles in a variety of repertoire including works by Mark Baldwin, Javier De Frutos, David Bintley, Christopher Hampson, Cathy Marston, David Nixon, John Cranko, Kenneth Macmillan and George Balanchine.

After performing, Michael undertook his teacher training with The Royal Ballet School and cofounded Professional Dance Experience with his wife, Kimberley. Together they delivered weekly Ballet Associate programmes, Summer, Easter and Christmas ballet courses, the Youth Ballet Theatre and annual Ballet Teacher Seminars. Michael also managed a team of teachers who delivered ballet workshops and masterclasses for over 250 local dance schools across the U.K.

Michael has been a guest teacher at The Royal Ballet School, Elmhurst Ballet School and Northern School of Contemporary Dance. He has also taught on the Professional Graduate Programme at Northern Ballet Academy and has been a guest ballet master at Northern Ballet.

Şebnem Önal was born in Ankara, Turkey and began her ballet education at the Dance Academy Tatjana Gsovsky in Berlin. She attended the Ballet Academy Heinz Bosl - Stiftung in Munich 1987 and graduated in 1993.

After her first engagement at the State Theater Gärtnerplatz Munich, her next step in 1997 brought her to The Stuttgart Ballet under the Direction of Reid Anderson where she danced solo parts in classical and contemporary ballets; John Cranko, John Neumeier, Kenneth Mac Millan, Marcia Haydée, Maximilliano Guerra, James Kudelka, George Balanchine, Hans van Manen, JiriKylián, William Forsythe, Uwe Scholz, Christian Spuck, Mauro Bigonzetti, , Marco Goecke, Kevin O’Day, James Sutherland.

Şebnem has toured on several occasions and starred in gala performances in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, in Japan, Korea, China, in Italy and Spain.

In 2004 Vladimir Malakhov engaged her to State Ballet Berlin and promoted her to soloist dancer where she danced numerous of solo roles as like “ Le Papillon” and “ La Vivandiere” by Pierre Lacotte, “Paquita”/ Pad de Trois, “ Rast der Kavallerie” / Pas de Deux, “ The Frescoes” by M. Petipa, “Swan Lake ”/ Pas de Trois and Italian Princess, “ Giselle”, “ Nutcracker” by Patrice Bart, “ Sleeping Beauty”/ Fairy’s and Jewel’s, “La Bajadere”/ solo Shadow and Grand Pas, “ Cinderella”/ Winter, “ La Peri” / Spanish Princess by Vladimir Malakhov, “ The Vertiginous Thrill of Exatitude” by W. Forsythe, “ Tschaikowsky”/ the Girl by Boris. Eifman, “ Ring um den Ring” by M.aurice Bejart, “Sleeping Beauty” Duchesse / Nacho Duato.

Şebnem was dancing as a Soloist with State Ballet Berlin from 2014 until 2017 under the Direction of Nacho Duato.

Two documentary films have been made in Berlin about her life as a dancer.

Şebnem graduated with a Diploma as a Dance Pedagogue from the John Cranko School in Stuttgart and Tanzloft Berlin Certified School for Dance Pedagogy.

David was born in Liverpool and trained at both The Royal Ballet Lower and Upper Schools. He graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet in 1982 and relocated with the company when it became Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1990. He rose to the rank of Principal Dancer, and went on to dance with Cleveland/San Jose and Hong Kong Ballet companies.

He returned to the Royal Ballet School to complete their teaching diploma for professional dancers. He holds a Licentiate qualification (Cecchetti Society Classical Ballet Faculty) from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, a degree in psychology from Goldsmith's College, University of London, and is currently studying for his Cecchetti Fellowship.

He started teaching at English National Ballet School in September 2017 having previously taught at Elmhurst Ballet School, The Royal Ballet School, Central School of Ballet, The Laban Centre, and London Studio Centre. In 2015 he was invited to be a member of the assessment panel at The Danish Royal Ballet School, Copenhagen.

David has also taught for the Hong Kong Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and Michael Clark companies. In addition, he regularly teaches at Easter and summer schools around the world, especially in Japan, and has been a regular member of the jury for the Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong.

Nicola trained as a dancer in Cambridgeshire with John Dowson and King Slocombe School of Dance, and in London at Central School of Ballet under the direction of Christopher Gable. She performed nationally and internationally, with Northern Ballet (Theatre) dancing a wide variety of soloist and principal roles in the company's diverse repertoire; Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Cathy (Wuthering Heights), Mina (Dracula), Belle (A Christmas Carol), Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Odilia and Cygnets (Swan Lake).

Nicola retrained as a teacher gaining a distinction on the Professional Dancer’s Teaching Diploma from the Royal Academy of Dance and furthered her education by studying Dance Science at Trinity Laban. She has taught classical ballet, pointe work, and repertoire in various vocational and pre-vocational colleges across London, including Central School of Ballet, Trinity Laban, London Studio Centre, Millennium Performing Arts, Mountview Performing Arts, Cecchetti Associates, Transitions Dance Company, and as Head of Ballet at D&B Academy of Performing Arts. In 2016 she choreographed for and coached a scholarship winner at the Youth America Grand Prix Finals in New York City. She is a Founding Director of ARC Dance Academy London, and Classical Ballet Tutor for the Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) at The Place.

Nicola's teaching style reflects her background as a professional dancer and training as a dance scientist. In a positive and encouraging atmosphere she endeavours to achieve a balance between technique and performance; ensuring her students gain an understanding of their own physiques to optimise technical execution, help to prevent injury, and give them the confidence and freedom to perform to the best of their abilities.

Juan Eymar was born in Madrid where he trained as a dancer with Lola De Ávila and Carmen Roche who took him in to her company as a principal  dancer at the age of 14.

After three years gathering experience on the Spanish stage Mr Eymar continued his professional career  in leading European companies like Zurich Ballet, The Bavarian State Ballet and Dutch National Ballet where he performed group, soloist and principal roles in most classical ballets and works by renowned choreographers such as  Balanchine, Cranko, MacMillan, Van Manen, Ek, Forsythe and Kylián amongst many others . 

In 2012, Mr Eymar ventured into other areas of dance including choreography and injury recovery. He became a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®  and was awarded the equivalent to a higher education in Dance by the Government of Spain. Before joining English National Ballet School, Mr Eymar worked for 2 years  as a teacher and choreographer at the High Conservatory of Dance in Madrid and was an international guest teacher in various international companies and schools including the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Zurich Ballet and Estonian National Ballet.

Monique began dancing with the Chance to Dance programme before training at the Arts Educational Schools London in Musical Theatre and Jazz dance. She completed her training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and received her Masters Degree from The London Contemporary Dance School, passing with distinction in 2017. 

Monique joined the Richard Alston Dance Company as an apprentice in 2016 and has toured extensively, both nationally and internationally with RADC until their final performance in 2020. She has recently been a part of both the creation, and the 2019 UK tour with Mathew Bourne’s New Adventures, in their latest production of Romeo and Juliet. Her commercial work includes working for Paloma Faith, Jamie Cullum, Amaarae and Arcade Fire.

Externally, Monique has newly founded her own dance company, Jona Dance. She has been choreographing, movement directing, teaching and producing work both online and in person, with the aim of amplifying silenced voices through contemporary dance in the UK.

Over the years, Monique has also worked with Rambert Dance Company- A Linha Curva and Garsington Opera, Sally Marie, Hubert Essakow, Kim Brandstrup, Arcade Fire, Theo Adams Company, The Ramona Flowers and Chris Thomas Dance to name a few. 

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David Beer

Choreography

David is an East Midlands based dancer, teacher and choreographer, who since graduating from the Laban Centre has danced and taught with companies across the UK and America including Burklyn Ballet Theatre and Kim Robards Dance (where he performed at the Joyce Soho and other American theatres), Secret Cinema, Aegis Live Arts and Gleich Dances. David now works as Assistant Director to Chantry Dance Company; midlands based theatrical contemporary ballet company. 

David teaches many disciplines, including classical and contemporary Ballet, Cunningham, Graham and Release based contemporary techniques, as well as improvisation and choreography.  Whilst in America he taught as part of Kim Robards Dance teaching faculty, in this time guest teaching at Colorado Ballet School. As a freelance teacher he has taught at schools and colleges including, London Studio Centre, Italia Conti, London Boys Ballet, Highgate Ballet School, West London School of Dance and the Cecchetti Society.  He now holds the position of Associate Principal at Chantry School of the Contemporary and Balletic Arts and is a core tutor in contemporary techniques and creative practices.

As a choreographer David founded Collisions Dance Company in the UK in 2008, the company presented work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for several years, as well as part of Resolutions! Festival (The Place), and at The Actors Church in Covent Garden.  He also collaborated with Lush Cosmetics and Gorilla Perfume, choreographing and creating works that ranged from traditional dance, to multi sensory performance events across the UK. 

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