Teachers
Miss Michelle
Miss Michelle, born on 9th April 1977 Michelle started dancing at the age of 3 with the Deanne King School of Dancing. She trained also at Kilburn School of Dance and danced in many county productions. As well as performing for a year in theatre productions. Having always had a love of working with children Miss Michelle qualified as a nursery nurse in 1996 and spent many years working a private nanny. During this period she continued to support her dance teacher as an assistant dance teacher from the age of 14. She then decided to pursue her career as a dance teacher where she holds her Associate Teachers Qualification in Ballet, Tap, Modern Stage and Musical Theatre with the NATD , and later founded The Michelle Randles School of Dancing in 2004 and the rest is history. In August 2016 Miss Michelle completed her training in Acro dance and is a certified teacher with the Acrobatic arts syllabus, As well as completing the new Early movers programme designed for Pre school children with the NATD.
Miss Rachel
Miss Rachel Born on the 10th March 1998, Miss Rachel has danced with Michelle Randles School Of Dancing since the school opened in 2004, She has achieved so many of her dreams and had the opportunity to perform at venues such as; Her majesty's Theatre London, West end, Disney Land Paris and The Royal Albert hall. Recently having completed her level 3 diploma and HNC & HND degree at College, Miss Rachel has had the opportunity to study musical theatre and create and perform in lots of shows; including the musical 'A Chorus Line'. Miss Rachel currently works at a secondary school teaching expressive arts, Working at Sporty holiday club during the holidays and running 'Perform' with one of her past teachers. She enjoys leading dance, singing and sport sessions. At weekends Miss Rachel works with Kelly’s Princess Parties as a character performer, attending, and often leading, children’s parties. This includes singing, dancing, party games and activities etc. Miss Rachel is a performing arts, sports teacher and training to be a designated safe guarding lead, as keeping your children safe is her passion. Miss Rachel is currently furthering her Performing arts training at the prestige college Italia Conti.
Miss Leah
Leah has trained at MRSOD since the age of 3 and has been assisting dance classes since she was 11 years old. She has performed at many West End theatres such as Her Majesty's Theatre, Saddlers Wells , The O2 and the Royal Albert Hall and at Disneyland Paris. Leah is a valued member of the team and a much loved part of the faculty. She is an extremely talented and inspirational dancer to many of our students and she helps to bring out the best in our pupils. Leah has completed her A Levels in English, Psychology and Chemistry and has recently started her Children and Young Person's Nursing BSc (Hons) at the University of Northampton. She continues to train at MRSOD 4 days a week and regularly covers lessons for Miss Michelle.
Connor
Connor has been part of MRSOD all his life and started dancing at the age of 5 years. He found a love of breakdance and trained as a BBoy with the IDC crew and performed in numerous community shows and competitions. Whilst taking his GCSE dance Connor realised he wanted to study dance full time and joined the Addict Youth Dance Academy training in ballet, tap, jazz, commercial and hip hop dance. To this day Connor is still training at Addict Dance academy in Leicester , he successfully passed his BTEC in performing Arts (dance) and his HND degree in performing arts (dance) . Connor is now studying his BA (HONS) in dance performance and is due to complete this in 2023. Connor is continuing to dance professionally as well as teaching and Choregraphing for MRSOD, he is heavily involved with our show routines which is also something he loves to do. Connor recently performed at the London lifestyle awards with Beverly Knight, Has worked in London on music videos and continues to audition for professional roles within the industry.