Amanda Keating

ACCREDITATIONS

Trinity Level 6 Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre

Royal Academy of Dance Advanced 2

ISTD Imperial Ballet Diploma in Dance Education

TRAINING

The Urdang Academy (Full Scholarship)
Ballet West

RESPONSIBILITIES

As well as managing & developing the course structure and faculty, Amanda focuses on technical training in Ballet & Jazz and developing students’ individual artistry.

PERFORMANCE CREDITS & CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Performed in three critically acclaimed classical ballets: Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Coppelia

Canon (TV Advert), Into The Woods, and MOVE IT (Main stage opening year)

Associate Artist at Royal Ballet and Opera

Amanda’s passion and focus has always been teaching and over the last 15 years Amanda has built up her reputation with excellent exam results and destinations for her students. She has supported hundreds of students for success in their ISTD Ballet and Modern, LCM Musical Theatre, LAMDA Acting and Verse and Pros examinations, as well as preparing students for Further and Higher Education in Performing Arts and Dance. Her skills lie in tutoring aspiring performers and helping them to gain the credits and skills to achieve in the Dance and Musical Theatre Industry. Amanda is also developing her creative practice with a new and exciting partnership with the Royal Ballet and Opera as an Associate Artist. Her affiliation with the vocational establishments, working creatives, directors and educators allows her to keep up to date with industry’s ever changing requirements and why she has enjoyed success, with her students gaining college and university placements at the most successful schools, such as The Urdang Academy, London Studio Centre, Central School of Ballet, The Place and Laine Theatre Arts to name a few.

Her past students have also gone onto working professionally in shows such as Matilda, Once The Musical, Billy Elliot and Matthew Bourne’s Junior company under her guidance, dance teaching and support.