KJ Parker
DDE ISTD modern tap ballet national, IDTA ballet, L2WAG
Junior Department Teacher; Tap, Modern, Acro
KJ started dancing at the age of 3, at age 8 after being taught by miss conroy and her staff at a dance school on the Wirral, she knew that when she was old enough, she wanted to go to nldas teacher training college to become a dance teacher.
She trained at The Victoria Academy of Dance and drama in all genres, until the age of 16 when she moved to NLDA to start her teacher training journey, where she studied and gained her Diplomas of dance in modern, tap, ballet and national.
During her career she has had some fantastic opportunity’s to perform in many theatres and venues around the UK and Europe in shows, competitions and pantomimes with various companies. After teaching for 6 years KJ has had experience teaching children of all ages and has had the opportunity to choreograph for many shows and performances over the past few years, one of which being performed on a broadway stage by some of our NLDA pupils.
KJ is also a level 2 women’s artistic gymnastics coach with British Gymnastics. Training north west and county 4 piece gymnasts over on the Wirral and is also choreographer at the club producing floor routines and displays for the gymnasts.
She really enjoys transferring this knowledge and experience, seeing the progress and improvement of the students in the acro classes at NLDA, and is excited to continue to be a part of their learning and progress.
