Leanne joined a Street Dance club at the age of 13 years old. She was asked to join a dance school shortly after... became a Teacher, was one of the Head Choreographers, made Manager and now has her own company!
Leanne found a passion for dance in Secondary school and received the first ever award at her first dance show for having the bes
Leanne joined a Street Dance club at the age of 13 years old. She was asked to join a dance school shortly after... became a Teacher, was one of the Head Choreographers, made Manager and now has her own company!
Leanne found a passion for dance in Secondary school and received the first ever award at her first dance show for having the best “Style and Technique”. Later on she was crowned the “Best Dancer” of that school, was the first to take her Bronze Exam in Street Dance as a Soloist and came first place in many different competitions after that. Leanne has completed all of her Street Dance exams, receiving Honours. She also took her Student teacher exam to train to be a teacher and then passed her Associate teacher exam a few years later to become fully qualified. This resulted in Leanne becoming a member of the IDTA (International Dance Teachers Association) and has been for nearly 20 years now! Leanne is First Aid trained, has an up to date + enhanced DBS, completed a 7 week Autism course, is a licensed chaperone and has her Public Liability Insurance and Music Licence documentation. She also has a safeguarding and health and safety policy.
Leanne is trained in Street Dance but also specialises in Lyrical Hip Hop, has a high standard of Commercial classes and promotes beginner’s Breakdance.
Being a dancer and performer herself, Leanne has worked with artists such as Diversity, Flawless, Aiden Davis, FunkyS, Kool and the Gang and Naughty Boy, as well as performing alongside a
Leanne is trained in Street Dance but also specialises in Lyrical Hip Hop, has a high standard of Commercial classes and promotes beginner’s Breakdance.
Being a dancer and performer herself, Leanne has worked with artists such as Diversity, Flawless, Aiden Davis, FunkyS, Kool and the Gang and Naughty Boy, as well as performing alongside artists such as Little Mix and Tinchy Stryder. She has also danced and competed at venues such as the O2, Apollo Theatre, New Victoria Theatre, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Princes Hall Theatre, Guilfest, BGT, Got to Dance and Surrey’s Next Top Model.
One of Leanne's first achievements after opening LDA was being booked as Georgia Harrison’s Choreographer for the launch of her Gym Brand, GHX. She also auditioned 6 of LDA’s dancers who all performed for the Love Island contestant and her guests that night. This was a red carpet press event which was recorded and pictured by The Sun amongst other tabloids and social media.
Since then, Leanne has choreographed for Guildford Town centre’s launch of the “Most wonderful time of the year” - has been asked to judge at the IDTA Dance Competition in Chessington and the UOP Dance Competition in Portsmouth. She has also danced for Samsung in London!
Leanne strives to make all of her lessons as fun, relevant and educational as she can within LDA. Working on different styles, embracing new ways of teaching/dancing and constantly thinking up new ideas to keep her students working hard, but above all, enjoying themselves.
LDA was opened in September 2018 and Leanne is thrilled to be the Founder/Director of the Academy.