Amy

AMY DREW 

Amy grew up and trained in Western Australia at the Terri Charlesworth School of Ballet, the Graduate College of Dance and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. After graduating, Amy performed Odette/Odile in the Tasmanian Classical Ballet Company’s tour of Swan Lake and danced with Seo Dong Hyun Dance Company and Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore. Amy then joined the National Ballet of Ireland in mid-2005 where she became Principal Dancer and created and performed many diverse roles including the ‘Chosen One’ (Rite of Spring), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Salome (Salome), Sybil Vane (Dorian Gray), Cinderella (Cinderella) and the Nurse (Romeo and Juliet). For eight years Amy was Principal Artist, teacher and choreographer and corps de ballet coach for the English Youth Ballet. Here, her repertoire included, Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Myrtha and Giselle (Giselle), Swanhilda (Coppélia) and the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker). Amy also worked for 15 years as a freelance dancer and teacher in London (for companies such as the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, JLee Productions, Curve Foundation and The Cohan Collective among others) She moved to Cornwall with her husband and son in 2020 and they now also have a young daughter.

Amy is passionate about making dance and ballet a supportive, fun and inclusive art form and aims to bring professional dance training and performing opportunities to Cornish students.