Training

SCOTLAND

1954-1956 Peggy O’Neill’s Irish Dancing School

1957-1962 Margaret Morris School of Celtic Ballet

- Margaret Morris was the first proponet of the Isadora Duncan technique in Great Britain

 ENGLAND

1963-1964 Rambert School of Ballet

Teachers: Dame Marie Rambert, Errol Addison (former members of the Diagelev Company

1965-1967 Andrew Hardie School of Dance

Ballet, Jazz,Contemporary, Tap

1968 Matt Mattox Jazz

1978-1981 The Royal Ballet School

Teachers Training Course, Graduated 1981. Awarded the Ninette de Valois Prize for top graduate.

Professional Performing Experience

From 1956 Competed and won many trophies and medals for Irish Dancing

Appeared in the Andy Stewart Show, Glasgow

1966-1967 BBC Operas: Eugene Onegin, Count of Monte Cristo, Rigoletto

1968-1969 Sadlers Wells Opera Ballet: director Peter Darrell

Created the role of White Boy in Ephemeron

1970 The musical Mame, Ginger Rogers, Drury Lane

1971 The musical Promises Promises, choreography Michael Bennett



Television

1970 Royal Command Performance, London Palladium

The Cilla Black Show

The Carol Burnett Show

The Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyck Special



Films

1971 Fiddler on the Roof, Topal

The Devils, Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed

Heaven’s Gate, director Michael Cimino



Europe

1971 Sporting Club, Monte Carlo

Le Croix Rouge, by invitation of Princess Grace of Monaco

1972 The Roland and Zizi Jeanmaire Company, Paris

The Grande Eugene Spectacle, Paris, Rome

1978 Maurice Chevalier Memorial TV Spectacle

Royal Opera House, Terry Gilbert



Teaching and Administration

1981 Student teacher, White Lodge and Royal Ballet School

1981-1997 Assistant to the Director and Artistic Coordinator, London Studio Centre

1981-1997 Senior adjudicator, International Federation of Music, Dance and Speech.

1992 Arts Council of Great Britain. Engaged Donald McLennan to create a program of beginners’ ballet lessons targeted towards young ethnic minority students.



Guest Teacher

State School of Ballet, Athens, Greece; Norway; France; Scotland; Denmark; Switzerland; Singapore; Spain and Germany, Finland.

1984-1988 Board of Directors, Phoenix Dance Company

1997 onwards Founder and Director Millennium Dance 2000

2005 Founder and Director Mitchell Maas McLennan Artist Management.

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