Hannah is a former Principal Soloist at Northern Ballet. Hannah co-founded The Ballet Retreat with David in 2015. She manages and produces all our retreats and typically runs your warmup and cool down/relaxation classes. Hannah has danced countless principal roles to date including the title role in David Nixon's Cleopatra, Jane in Jane Eyre and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

Lead teacher in your daily technique and classical repertoire classes, David will guide you through every step. David was a Principal Ballet dancer with Northern Ballet and BalletMet Columbus, also dancing with the Joffrey Ballet and Queensland Ballet. David runs his own adult ballet programme in London - DPK Ballet.

Gavin is a Jr Soloist at Northern Ballet. He joined the company after graduating from the English National Ballet School. Alongside his performing career he has taught and coached for numerous arts organisations including London Studio Centre and the RAD. Gavin sits on the board for Young Dancers Academy in London and has a keen interest in choreography and Arts Marketing and Administration. Gavin has been part of The Ballet Retreat team since 2016

Joshua is a member of the artistic team at Elmhurst Ballet School. He has a successful adult ballet program that he runs alongside his teaching post. As a professional dancer Josh toured the world and performed with Northern Ballet, Rambert and Company Wayne McGregor and danced with ballet greats such as Alessandra Ferri. Joshua joined The Ballet Retreat team in 2020.

Antoinette recently retired from a 14 year career with Northern Ballet, reaching Premier Dancer and touring extensively with the company throughout the UK and overseas. She trained for 9 years with The Royal Ballet Lower and Upper School before moving to Leeds to join NB. Since retiring she has gone on to do a Pilates Teacher Training course at Pure Pilates studio in Ilkley and teaching ballet to both adults and children. She is excited and keen to keep learning and progressing with the teaching and feels very lucky to have the opportunity to see how much people enjoy expressing themselves through movement and just having fun, the most important part!

Our very own pianist for all the Leeds Retreats. There is nothing like live music and Andrew is one of the best. He is the Company/Orchestral Pianist for Northern Ballet. He also regularly works as a Staff Pianist for Lake District Summer Music, the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain, Renaissance Arts, the Geneva International Summer Festival and Academy of Music and is an examiner for the ABRSM.