Meet The Team

Danni Lannoy

Principal AISTD

Danni started dancing at a young age and attended dance school on the South Coast before being selected to dance at the prestigious Laine Theatre Arts.

During her career Danni performed in professional pantomimes with various well known celebrities, danced in ‘The Carousel’, was part of the resident cast of ‘The Spirit of the Dance’ in Las Vegas and went on to tour the USA in ‘The Spirit of Broadway’ with the Osmonds! She also has various TV credits to her name and has danced for Sony Records and worked with Capital FM on some of their live shows such as ‘Party in the Park’.

After having a family of her own Danni renewed her teaching qualifications (DDE in Modern, Ballet and Tap) and continues to achieve excellence in her Continuing Professional Development undertaking specialist courses and development of her extensive teaching skills. Danni loves nothing more than passing on her passion for all things dance to others!

Michelle White AISTD

Showtime teacher, Ballet, Street Dance, Character, Tap & Modern

Michelle has the most amazing musical theatre credits to her name as well as extensive teaching experience including her qualification as a LAMDA teacher.

Prior to joining us in late 2016 as full time team member Michelle was a cast member for two years in the Drury Lane production of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Other credits to her name include ‘Hairspray’, ’42nd Street’, ‘White Christmas’, ‘My Fair Lady’, Oklahoma’ and ‘Me and My Girl’.

Michelle teaches our 1 to 1 dance (ballet, tap, streetdance, modern and character) classes and 1 to 1 singing workshops as well as our hugely successful Theatre School and Showtime ‘Juniors’ on Saturdays at Churchers junior school, liphook.

Megan Ford

Guest Teacher

Megan Ford started her training by gaining a scholarship to the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts as a child and went on to perform in many West End shows including ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Me and My Girl’ and also has Shakespeare credits to her name include ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. More recently Megan has taught singing and acting for Stagecoach and PERFORM UK.

Milly Gauntlett AISTD

Ballet, Modern and PBT

Milly started dancing when she was 2 and was eventually dancing nearly every day doing various genres including Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz at a dance school in Chichester, West Sussex.

She soon realised she wanted to pass on her passion for dance in teaching! She became a teaching assistant and was assisting for 10 years for classes with under 7’s before completing her teaching qualifications (DDI) in Ballet, Tap and Modern at Chichester College.

She then went off to the University of Chichester were she obtained a degree in Early Childhood Studies. During this time she was teaching Ballet, Tap and Modern to various ages at several schools.

She has recently taken her next level of teacher training (DDE) in Modern in Guildford.

Emily Whitehead

Guest Teacher

Emily originates from Gloucester and at the age of 12 was fortunate enough to gain a place at the prestigious ‘Royal Ballet School’, where she studied classical ballet for 5 years.

She was then accepted with a full scholarship to study at ‘Laine Theatre Arts’ graduating with her Dance Diploma in 2004.

Emily’s credits include; Dance Captain and Swing We Will Rock You (International Tour) Swing and Ensemble in We Will Rock You (Dominion); Santa Claus & the Return of Jack Frost (Mayflower, Southampton); High School Musical (UK National Tour); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK National Tour); Grease is the Word (ITV); Charity Gala (Royal Opera House)

Emily is the founder of ‘Blackheath Ballet’ where she teaches adults of all ages the art of Ballet and has also created the new and exciting exercise class ‘Ballet Burn’. Emily joins the Lannoy School of Performing Arts as a guest teacher and frequently does blogs and video technique tutorials for us.

Emily Woodward

Administration and Marketing

Emily has years of experience in Travel PR and Marketing.

Now Mother to two girls who are very keen dancers she now handles all the office administration – if you have any questions about anything she’s your first point of contact.

Kayleigh Pendry

Showtime Singing Teacher

Kayleigh started dance at a young age in Portsmouth training in Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz. She worked hard to progress through many grades as well as regularly competing at local and nation festivals. She continued here until the age of 15 where she took a break to focus on her school exams.

As well as dance, Kayleigh had also really enjoyed singing, receiving 96/100 in her Grade 8 singing exam.

Whilst at Essex University where she studied Law, Kayleigh realised just how much she missed dance and joined the cheerleading team where she was elected Dance Captain. During this time, she choreographed for her team securing them a win at the BCC international dance competition in 2009.

Kayleigh went on to study a PGCE in Primary education at the University of Chichester. In her spare time, she joined a local amateur dramatics company, the Portsmouth Players, in a bid to carry on performing. She has been fortunate enough to have been selected to play a number of incredible roles such as Nancy in ‘Oliver’, Penny Lou Pingleton in ‘Hairspray’ and Jan in ‘Grease’.

Alex

Acro-dance teacher

Alex first started training as a gymnast at the age of 8 where his love of all apparatus grew. He continued to train for the next 10 years before he left to train in musical theatre at London Studio Centre.
Soon after graduating Alex was cast in “We will rock you” the German tour which lasted 13 months in which he showcased his acrobatic skills in a few of the well known numbers in the show.
When he returned to England he was lucky enough to be cast in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” at Drury lane in London where he met and started working with a fellow teacher Mrs Michelle Bents. After a year in the West End, Alex wanted to travel and was cast in “Cats” on royal Caribbean, where he played almost every cat!
Now Alex is currently rehearsing and performing in “9 to 5” at the Savoy Theatre where, once again, his acrobatic skills are coming into play.
Now Alex is looking forward to teaching the new emerging talent that is at Lannoy School of Performing Arts and hopes to inspire and help all students in their acrobatic abilities.