Vanessa Fenton appointed as School Patron!

Vanessa Fenton danced with The Royal Ballet for 13 years. She has also performed with Ballet Nationale de Marseille, Roland Petit, with ENB and with Wayne Sleep at The London Coliseum.

She has performed at The Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, The Metropolitan Opera House in New York and almost every other major theatre around the world.

Vanessa has choreographed numerous pieces for The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School, The New English Contemporary Company, The London Children's Ballet and The Royal Opera House Educational Department on many of their programme's including A Chance to Dance.

She has choreographed for The Classic BRIT Awards at The Royal Albert Hall and has worked with artists such as Dame Shirley Bassey, Ronnie Wood, Erin O Connor, for London Fashion Week, Bryan Adams, Joe Corre, Martyn Ware, Mary McCartney, Sarah Lucas and the legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.

Vanessa has also taught at the Royal Academy of Dance, Pineapple, Danceworks and with the Royal Opera House education department, both at ROH and the Lowry on chance to dance and east london dance programmes.