A series of dance workshops organised and led by highly experienced Haberdashers' Monmouth alumni in partnership with Haberdashers' Monmouth Dance Department. Children will learn a variety of styles that will not only develop their abilities in dance, but also their confidence, collaboration and creativity. Above all, members of Monmouth Dance Summer School will have a lot of fun! At 30 years since the first ever Monmouth Dance Summer School, masterminded by Rhyan Parry and enthusiastically attended by Lara Jakes (in Year 8!), it seems fitting that Habs alumni Rhyan and Lara should reunite and form a partnership with Haberdashers' Monmouth Dance Department to run Dance Summer School: Reignited 2025! Between them, they have almost 60 years of performing arts teaching experience! LARA JAKES BA (Hons), PGCE, PGDip Performing Arts Educator & Practitioner Founder of ArtsForce Academy - Lara trained at Trinity Laban after building a strong foundation in dance and choreography at Haberdashers' Monmouth, and has nearly 20 years’ experience in teaching, directing, and choreography. - She believes in the power of performing arts education to foster confidence, creativity, and a deeper understanding of self and others. - Committed to ongoing development, she studies diverse performing arts styles and, as well as a PGCE (Drama/English) and PGDip (Community Dance), holds teaching qualifications from the IDTA and Yoga Alliance. - Lara has taught drama and dance across primary and secondary schools, and led large performing arts departments in Epsom and Brighton College. - She has directed and choreographed nearly 30 major productions. RHYAN PARRY BA(Hons), PGCE Dance Educator, Movement Practitioner & Choreographer Founder of RHYALITY DANCE: Real Dance 4 Real People - With a long career in education and leadership, Rhyan has been setting trends, not following them—designing an accredited Agored Cymru Qualification, 'Skills for Employment, Training & Personal Development through Dance', is just one example. - Rhyan's ethos centres around 'Physical Literacy' and the enjoyment and intrinsic benefits of 'Moving the Body’. - Rhyan adopts a holistic and multidisciplinary approach: ‘with the students; for the students’. - Her core principles of teaching and training take root in Rudolf Laban’s systematic analysis of movement. Rhyan pursued extensive training through the Laban Guild and Keep Fit Association, as well as developing a breadth of skills in a plethora of dance styles, fitness trends and teaching methods, notably with Associate teaching qualifications through the IDTA. - She has lost count of the abundance of dance performances and events that she has conceived, choreographed and produced!

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