Meet the Dancers

Lucy trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and Arts Educational School and is Choreographer and Co-founder of Moving Stories Dance Company. She has performed in many musicals in the West End and overseas including: Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, Contact, On Your Toes, Grease, The Pajama Game, Johann Strauss Gala Tour, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats. Lucy has also performed and assisted in many opera productions at The Royal Opera House, English National Opera and Glyndebourne. After performing Lucy worked as a sports Massage Therapist alongside freelance teaching. In 2013, Lucy set up her own studio in Hampton where she teaches Dance and Yoga to the local community.

Heather trained at the Royal Academy of Dance and The Rambert School and is also Co-founder of Moving Stories Dance Company. She danced for Wiener Ballett Theater and then went on to dance in musicals and operas including; Phantom of the Opera, The Pajama Game, Die Fledermaus and Midsummer Nights Dream with Glyndbourne Opera, The Mikado with ENO and Hansel and Gretel with Diva Opera. Heather also assisted Will Tuckett with his productions of Wind in the Willows and Pinocchio at ROH2. Heather is now a qualified Pilates Matwork and Equipment teacher and has her own business where she also teaches adult ballet. She is very excited to be a Co-founder of Moving Stories Dance Company and cannot wait to uplift and inspire audiences to keep on moving!

Sophie trained at Tring Park Academy of Performing Arts and Arts Educational School. She danced in La Nouvelle Eve in Paris. She also performed in West End musical – Moby Dick and in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in Plymouth. She has appeared in numerous commercials, video and TV shows including Eastenders, Wogan, Val Doonical’s Christmas and the National Lottery. Sophie was a Lead vocalist for ‘Harlem Swing’ Big Band and trio ‘Babette’s Feast’. She currently sings with duo band ‘Songs in Time’. Sophie is a qualified dance teacher, fitness and personal trainer. She is very happy to be performing with ‘Moving Stories’ and thrilled with the opportunity to entertain and bring a smile to an audience through dance!

Frances trained at the Rambert Dance School, and went on to spending over ten years dancing with the full-time repertory company Berne Ballet before moving back to London where she has been freelancing since 2002. Working with contemporary, ballet, musical and opera companies, mainly as a dancer, but also as a choreographer and rehearsal director. During her career, Frances took up teaching dynamic yoga, movement coaching and training performers and actors, as well as providing hands-on bodywork. She is today mainly offering physical consultancy for West End and big movie productions and has just launched her own online movement coaching and injury prevention programme Bodylistics® (www.bodylistics.com). Frances is overjoyed to be swinging her dance leg again amongst such wonderful friends and pros alike, and loves the motto: never too young to dance!!

Becky is a graduate of Central School of Ballet and has lived and travelled around the world dancing in companies, musicals, operas and films. Her musical theatre credits include Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, Kiss Me Kate and Falco Meets Amadeus. Her opera credits include Anna Nicole, Faust, Die Meistersinger and Tsar's Bride at the Royal Opera House, as well as Rinaldo at Glyndebourne and Samson et Dalila at Grange Park Opera. Becky has performed in Paris, Las Vegas and London as a soloist in the Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse, and also featured in the 2011 movie of the show. Other film credits include Streetdance 3D and London Road. In the past ten years, Becky took to the skies too, becoming an aerial silks, hoop and pole artist. She is a qualified aerial yoga and pole instructor and can't wait to perform – on the ground or in the air – with Moving Stories!

Becky dedicates her performance to her little sister Jo, a beautiful star in the sky whom she speaks to every single day.

Ben trained at the Northern Ballet School. Ben danced with The Lewis London Ballet, Ballet Creations of London and Adonais Ballet Company. During his career as a dancer in musical theatre he was in the cast of 8 West End productions including Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma! and Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang. His film and TV appearances include the Phantom of the Opera film, Blue Peter and the Royal Variety Show. Ben is currently the Marketing Manager of the award-winning English Youth Ballet. He teaches Adult Ballet and Dance Attack & Ballet for boys. He is having a fantastic time working with everyone in Moving Stories Dance Company.