Training

Should probably start with my school, the Arts Educational School, Tring Park (now known as Tring Park School for the Performing arts http://www.tringpark.com/) Check it out you might even spy a picture of spotty, 16 year old, me sat in a biology class...bored out of my Skull! Seriously though this school's academic work is at an exceptional standard and not just in comparison to other arts colleges, I'm talking IN GENERAL! I walked out of there with 3 good A levels at A grade (which is part of the ethos at Tring): have something to fall back on! The School offered a wide variety of teaching over 3 different courses (Dance, Musical Theatre and Drama). I experienced the Dance course and, unlike other students, took a firm grasp of all the disciplines that I could get my hands on- Drama, Singing, Ballet, Contemporary (Cunningham, Graham and Horton), Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop...the list goes on but you get the picture.

It was here that I met contemporary dance legend, Robert Cohan, who chose me to be the male soloist in his work 'Class'; a piece desingned to showcase a pure Graham Class (as taught by Martha Graham herself). We were filmed for a documentary designed to archive the Graham Technique in it's purest form and the works of Robert Cohan.