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Debbie Allen

Grades to Intermediate Examiner for the
Imperial Classical Ballet Faculty

Debbie trained with her mother, June Rendell, until the age of 16. She then continued her training at the Hammond School. During her time there she attained her Advanced exams in National, Modern and Imperial Ballet and in the Royal Academy of Dance.

She has since achieved the RAD Teachers Certificate Diploma, Modern Licentiate and Imperial Ballet Fellowship.

On leaving college she danced professionally with Dublin City Ballet for three years. Following this she commenced teaching in Dublin, firstly with Jill Wigham and then established her own school. Over the years she has been involved with staging various shows and charity events. Pupils are trained for ISTD and RAD exams, with many going on to make dancing their career either on the stage or in teaching.

She is married to Robert and they have two daughters, Rebecca and Kate.

 

Sinéad Murphy

Grades Examiner for the Imperial Classical Ballet Faculty

Sinéad began her dance training in Cork, Ireland later attending Merseyside Dance and Drama Centre, gaining the Imperial Classical Ballet Associate and later the Associate Diploma.

She has since been awarded the Imperial Classical Ballet Licentiate and Fellowship and the RAD Teaching Certificate. Sinéad has also taken and successfully gained both parts of the Anatomy and Physiology and History and Development of Western Dance papers and gained the Associate Diploma in Speech and Drama from the London College of Music.

She began teaching at the Joan Denise Moriarty School of Dance, where she was once a pupil, first as a Junior Assistant and currently as a Senior Teacher. She choreographs the school's annual shows and has also produced works for local colleges' annual awards and showcases, and the Irish Operatic Repertory Company tribute performance.

With the Cork Ballet Company, IORC/Opera South, Opera Cork and Everyman Palace Productions, to name but a few, Sinéad has performed many works, including Swan Lake, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Coppˇlia, The Merry Widow, La Traviata, Carmen, Oklahoma and the world premiere of The Ha'Penny Bridge.

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