About Us

FOUNDER | LEAD TEACHER LEYTON BRANCH

I’m a trained dancer, as well as a qualified children's yoga teacher and arts marketer with over ten years experience working with choreographers, arts organisations and public sector bodies in the UK and internationally. I live in Leyton with my two young children and husband. I started Wee Movers after struggling to find a suitable, local class for my two young children.

Fully qualified paediatric first-aider and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate.

FREELANCE > ALL BRANCHES

Hannah is a freelance dance artist and company dancer for Ransack Dance Company. She has worked as a freelance performer for Matthew Rawcliffe, The Pappy Show, State of Flux Theatre, and Protein Dance. Working with young people and the community is at the core of Hannah’s practice. She has worked as a choreographer for British Youth Music Theatre and regularly leads dance sessions for Trinity Laban.

Hannah is an inclusive practitioner, recently working on a performance project with Anjali Dance as Autism Key Worker. She has a wealth of experience working with young people and adults with learning and physical disabilities, and champions inclusion and accessibility in all her sessions.

LEAD TEACHER > WALTHAMSTOW BRANCH

Cherie trained at The University of Chichester and the School of Dance and Circus in Stockholm Sweden. She graduated with a BA Hons in Dance in 2011. Cherie has performed with Rhiannon Faith in Golden Bohemian 2012 and Drowntown Lockdown 2021.

Other performance credits include 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, Grease by Secret Cinema and work with companies such as Vintage Rambert, Hannah Merkai and Lila Dance. Cherie is a freelance Dance artist and Yoga practitioner, she has lead engagement workshops for children and young people for over 10 years at Sadlers Wells and many other settings.

LEAD TEACHER > BLACKHORSE LANE

Petronella is a dance teacher, choreographer, and performer based in London and Cornwall. She studied BA Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban and MA Choreography at London Contemporary Dance School.

Currently an Associate Artist with Swindon Dance, she has received choreographic commissions from Hall for Cornwall and Kneehigh Theatre. She teaches at The Place, with Sadler's Wells, on Centre for Advanced Training schemes (Swindon Dance, The Place), in primary schools across London, and is also a registered yoga teacher.

Petronella loves teaching people of all ages and aims to create an open and supportive space for people to explore their creativity and find joy and connection through dance.

ADULT CLASS LEAD | NURSERY AND SCHOOL SETTINGS FACILITATOR

Eilidh is a London-based dance artist with over ten years experience as facilitator. She has been part of the Wee Movers family since we began back in 2021 and brings so much joy to all her classes. Her teaching practice spans the community dance sector and the fitness sector in harmony, bringing a hybrid of movement qualities and awareness into her classes. She has worked from early years to older adults.

Eilidh is a dancer in residence at Great Ormond Street Hospital GOSH Arts and a dance artist for Move Dance Feel, an organisation for unites women affected by cancer through dance.

LEAD TEACHER > OLYMPIC PARK | SCHOOLS AND NURSERY FACILITATOR

Andrea is freelance dance artist and teacher originally from Glasgow, Scotland. She graduated from JV2, a talent development program led by Jasmin Vardimon Company and from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Her credits include performing for Tough Boys Dance Collective, Sunniva Moen Rørvik, Dani Harris Walter’s and Miriam Levy at various venues throughout London.

Andrea has always been passionate about projects which share dance with the wider community and is very excited to continue her teaching practice with Wee Movers.

LEAD TEACHER > ADULT CLASSES

Virginia is a dance artist, performer, teacher, and maker originally from Tuscany, Italy. She graduated with First-Class Honours from Trinity Laban in 2018 and toured with Transitions Dance Company, performing works by Karole Armitage, Marina Collard, and Hetain Patel.

As a freelancer, Virginia has collaborated on a variety of productions with choreographers such as Laura Kenyon (Womanewer, UK), Georgia Tegou & Michalis Theophanous (UK), Bim Malcomson and Alma Tischlerwood (UK), Juice Shuting, Laura Engholm (Engholm Danseteater, DK), Tommy Cattin (Erem Dance, CH), and Maxine Doyle (UK).

She is the co-founder of VI.SA. Dance Project, a female-led collective exploring themes of identity, belonging, resistance, and inclusion through movement and theatre. Together with dance artist Sara Maurizi, she created and performed the duet (R)esistentia, which premiered at the Umbria Dance Festival in 2022. The collective was awarded the DYCP grant by Arts Council England.

Virginia is currently performing as a Valkyrie in “Die Walküre” opera, directed by Barrie Kosky at the Royal Opera House, while also developing a solo project on the life and death cycle, supported by Trinity Laban with its first residency at London Performance Studios in January 2025.

She has extensive teaching experience with professional dancers, adults, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, working with Arc Dance Academy, TripSpace, The Place, Trinity Laban, Greenwich Dance, Mycenae House, Zest, and other charities.

LEAD TEACHER> FOUR-YEARS CLASSES LEYTON BRANCH

Rachel is a freelance dance teacher, performer, writer and dramaturg, with extensive experience teaching ballet and creative contemporary classes for ages two upwards. She is also host and founder of Dance Dialogues podcast, a platform to expand conversations on dance.

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION SETTINGS LEAD | WEEKEND CLASS ASSISTANT

Paddy is a queer dance artist working across dance performance and participation in the West Midlands and Greater London. They perform in outdoor, site-specific performances and mid-scale dance theatre shows.

Alongside working with Wee Movers, Paddy works in dance participation with people aged two to 72 in mainstream and inclusive contexts, such as schools, community centers and hospitals. Their aim is to share dance with others, prioritising the values of access, freedom, joy and connection.

WEEKEND CLASS COVER | CREATIVE HOLIDAY CLUBS ASSISTANT

Abbie Thompson is a freelance dance teacher, performer and choreographer; her primary focus is inclusive dance practice. After graduating from Trinity Laban, Abbie became an apprentice dancer for Stopgap Dance Company. During her time with the company, she taught inclusive community classes and completed an inclusive teacher programme, Seedbed. As a dancer, Abbie has performed nationally in a number of projects for stage, outdoor, gallery and film. Working for companies such as Ascension Dance Company and Stopgap Dance Company.

CREATIVE SCHOOL ASSISTANT

Tamar is an ABA tutor, as well as an art tutor for SEN children. She has worked in both mainstream and special needs schools for 10 years with a passion for education and an unwavering commitment to optimising pupil and school success. Tamar has a dance and social science degree, but found a passion working with special needs children across London.

She has been delighted to deliver her creative and artistic skills to children, allowing them to be free to express themselves through art and dance. Tamar loves her job - getting to see children engage, develop their interests and achieve their full potential.

COVER TEACHER

Holly trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and has extensive experience working in education and community settings with children and young people (at Trinity Laban, the Royal Academy of Dance, DanceWest, Truefitt Collective and Greenwich Dance and others).

She also has specialist experience working with young people with additional needs and disabilities, as well as working with adults. Holly is an open, friendly and inclusive teacher.

COVER TEACHER

Katie is originally from the Lake District and started dancing when she was 5 years old, she joined a youth dance company when she was a teenager and after that was lucky enough to audition for Trinity Laban in South East London where she is now in her final year of study. Since moving to London, she has performed in several different shows including the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

Outside of her contemporary dance training at Laban, she also trains with BoyBlue Hip Hop company every Sunday and enjoys teaching dance at different children's holiday activity camps.

COVER TEACHER

Aoife is a freelance dancer, graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2022 with a first-class degree and the Sylvia Bodmer Award for Choreological Studies. Aoife works with young people aged 4 and through the primary years. She works within community, school, and gallery settings.

Aoife is passionate about tailoring the support she provides for everyone in the class, with supportive, respectful acceptance of individuality.

COVER TEACHER

Rachel is a freelance dance artist from Scotland. She trained at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Rachel has performed for Highly Sprung, English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Peut-Etre Theatre, Next Door Dance, Tess Letham and Roisin O'Brien among others. In 2019 she co-founded Sliding Doors Collective.

Rachel has taught throughout Scotland, England, Denmark and China as a teacher independently as well as representing performance companies as a contemporary dance teacher, dancing mindfulness facilitator and yoga/meditation teacher.