BIOGRAPHY - CAROLYN ROSS

Carolyn Ross trained at the Susan Richards Ballet School in Scarborough, England. During her time there she took part in examinations, performances and seminars all over the country. She also won several awards for talent and choreography.

Carolyn went on to train professionally at the world renowned Royal Ballet School in London. Every year hundreds of young hopeful's audition for the different courses run by the Royal Ballet School, Carolyn was one of only ten girls to be hand-picked for the Teachers Training Course. She graduated from the three-year course after gaining excellent marks in all of her teaching examinations. Whilst training there she worked with Pamela May - a retired Ballerina from the Royal Ballet Company, and many acclaimed teachers such as Maria Fay, Denise Winmill and John Carney to name but a few. Additional to the teaching that the course required, Carolyn was privileged to teach Coaching classes for first year students of the Royal Ballet School's Teachers Training Course and to teach RAD classes for the first and second year students on the Teachers Training Course at the Royal Ballet School.

After graduating from the Royal Ballet School, she began teaching at the Ballettförderzentrum, Nuremberg, Germany. Here she taught students on the full time professional course and also younger students who trained for a hobby. Here, Carolyn had the opportunity to work with the Director of the Munich Ballet School - Heinz Manniegel. She was a guest teacher for summer and Easter schools all over Germany and trained students for prestigious competitions in Italy and the acclaimed Adeline Genee Awards. Carolyn even danced at the Alvin Ailey School in New York, and worked with company members of Alvin Ailey such as Andre Tyson and she was privileged to work with Mark Gomez from Chicago's West End too.

After teaching and choreographing in both Cork City and Mallow, Carolyn founded the Cork Dance Academy.

Throughout her years of teaching she has maintained a 100% examination pass rate for both RAD and ISTD.