JANE TUCKER

Jane Tucker, core ballet tutor - overseeing the ballet curriculum, and contributing to the planning and development of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance CAT programme.

Born in West Yorkshire, Jane undertook her early training with the Northern Dance Centre, completing it at Central School of Ballet and Northern Ballet School.
She began her professional career with the Hong Kong Ballet in 1994 followed by Northern Ballet Theatre in 1999. During this time she danced many of the classics, various modern works and premiered in new productions.

Gaining Distinction for the Professional Dancers Teaching Diploma at the RAD, London in 2002, Jane has accumulated extensive teaching experience to date. She toured Australia in 2003 undertaking workshops and classes in companies and vocational colleges, and has guest taught and coached for various schools, colleges and contemporary company’s over the years throughout the UK and Ireland, including the CAT program at the Lowry, classes for the original north based Billy and Micheal boys for the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical and outreach dance workshops in schools using the national curriculum English texts to create movement based stories.
For five consecutive years Jane was an external examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance’s Professional Dancers Teaching Diploma along with sitting on the board of directors for Corpi in Mostra, Barletta, and guest teaching for FormAzione Tersicore in Campania, Napoli, Italy.

At present, alongside being a core ballet tutor for the Northern School of Contemporary Dance CAT program, Jane is one of the core ballet teachers for the Academy of Northern Ballet where she’s been a member of the teaching faculty since 2003 working across the CAT, Associate, Graduate and Open programs.
Jane also continues to guest teach for schools and small companies in the North, coaching classical classes, workshops and the vocational grades in the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus.