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!

Tommi trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and worked as a performer for over 20 years within contemporary dance and music theatre in Sweden and in London’s West End (Cats, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fame, The Snowman); also toured around the world with the singer Sarah Brightman.

He can be seen as Coricopat in the 1998 video of Cats - NOT the 2019 Film!!

 He retrained at the British School of Osteopathy, with a M.Sc in Performing Arts Medicine from University College London. His M.Sc research, involved the previously untested and researched area of breathing whilst singing and dancing simultaneously, was later published in Journal of Voice.

 He regularly treats free-lance performers in West End, visiting UK tours and Performing arts schools; he also works as a guest lecturer.

For more information about his work as an osteopath and research, see www.sliiden.com

Stella trained at Arts Educational School Tring playing Clara in London Festival Ballet’s Nutcracker at the age of 12. 

On leaving Arts Ed London Stella joined the ballet company at Theatre An Der Wien in Vienna. Returning to London she worked for choreographers Paddy Stone, David Toguri, Carole Todd, Molly Molloy, Arlene Phillips, Tom Jobe and Anthony van Laast doing a wide variety of West End shows, trade shows, music videos and TV and film including Mamma Mia2! 

West End shows include The Two Ronnies, Chess, Metropolis and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Palladium and seasons at ENO. 

For several years Stella worked as an assistant choreographer and director on projects including The Royal Variety Show and Souls in Motion and the UK tour of Chess. 

Stella retrained as a yoga teacher and taught locally for several years. After a long break from performing she has enjoyed being part of Moving Stories. 

Kate trained at Laban as a contemporary dancer and danced for regional dance companies such as Influx Dance Company, Matthew Westerby Dance Company and Smallpetitklein, before becoming a full-time dance teacher. Initially working in higher education teaching contemporary dance technique and choreography, now as a freelance community dance artist, Kate works within London and Surrey delivering workshops, project managing community dance events, choreographing dances for all ages and creating flashmobs. Although Kate continues to work with children, she mostly specialises in working with older adults, leading classes for Dance West’s Bolder Not Older programme and Age UK’s Age of Grace. Kate has a particular interest in teaching dance for health classes for older adults living with Dementia and Parkinson’s. She teaches regularly for English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme as well as being co-director of Inclusive Intergenerational Dance, an Arts for Health Company based in Surrey. 

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.

Faye Barker is best known as a Presenter and Reporter at ITV News but she has always had a love of theatre and dance.

As a child she was a member of the Devon Youth Dance Company and right into her 20s was rarely not involved in a theatrical production, including performances at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and venues from Plymouth Theatre Royal to the Bradford Alhambra.

Her career in journalism has taken her from undercover reporting across Europe for ITV’s ‘Package Holiday Undercover’ to hours on air covering extraordinary and every day news events for Sky News, 5 News and her current and long-standing home, ITV News. She is also one of the hosts of the ITV News podcast, “What You Need to Know” and a guest presenter at LBC News. Recently she helped launch bespoke ITV News content on ITVX.

Film work includes appearances as herself in ‘Survivor’, ‘Hampstead’ and ‘Weekender’, as well as in TV dramas ‘Casualty’, ‘Whistleblowers’, ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and ‘Pennyworth’.

Sue graduated in dance from Bretton Hall College in 1992.  After performing with the Bretton Community Dance Company, including tour of Russia and The Ukraine, she went on to follow a career in education.  Sue taught dance, PE and drama in secondary schools, was a Headteacher for ten years and is now CEO of a Multi Academy Trust.  She has continued to be a student of dance throughout her adult life, taking regular classes.  Sue started attending Lucy’s jazz class ten years ago and is delighted to have the opportunity to perform with Moving Stories. We are never too old to learn or try something new!