Lauren has been a dancer her whole life, since the age of 3, training in Ballet & Musical Theatre at Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead before going on to successfully perform in musicals such as “Billy Elliot”, “High School Musical”, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and “Fame” around Berkshire & London.
In 2010, Lauren began training in Street Dance with Urban Strides – The Street Dance Specialists and performed at huge venues such as the London 02 Arena and The Royal Albert Hall. Lauren has been passionate in teaching authentic Street Dance & Musical Theatre for 12 years and in August 2016, completed her Level 4 Diploma in Performance Arts Awards (ADPA.)
Lauren is the owner and founder of Avenue Dance Company, a Dance School based in Berkshire, Hampshire and London.
She is continually sharing her passion and knowledge with the Shining Star team and students to ensure we provide the best quality classes for our students.
Eva
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Eva is currently a Performing & Production Arts student at Dancebox College, further developing her dance technique in Jazz, Ballet, Commercial, Tap & Lyrical. She has trained locally since 2011, starting at Stageworks Performing Arts and Urban Dance Company, where she was taught and performed with none other than our Principal, Lauren Jayne.
Eva completed her dance training with Pat Steel School of Dance and Bucks School of Dance, where she studied in Ballet, Contemporary, Lyrical and Tap, performing at many dance showcases in local theatres, Alton Towers, pantomimes and successfully competing for their Performance Group in solo and group categories.
Eva has been teaching at Shining Stars since 2023 leading weekly dance classes at Burnham Park and holiday workshops in Burnham and Maidenhead. Eva enjoys building confidence, teaching new choreography and introducing students to music genres and musical performances.
Clemmie
Clemmie currently trains in Musical Theatre privately and hopes to continue her training at advanced levels in the future. She started dance training at the age of 3 at Susan Handy’s School of Dance, where she took initially took Ballet and then went on to learn different styles such as Contemporary, Modern, Commercial, Jazz, Street dance and Acro. Clemmie continued her dance training for the next 12 years until she took up Musical Theatre at Pauline Quirke Academy and she became part of the Repertory Theatre Project Acting group. Through these academies, Clemmie has had the chance to perform at a variety of shows such as National Theatre plays, Musicals, Ballets and Pantomimes with a personal highlight of hers being performing at His Majesty’s Theatre – West End.
Clemmie has been teaching at Shining Star Performing Arts since January 2024, leading weekly classes and teaching at holiday camps/workshops.
Clemmie loves seeing the student’s pride in their achievements and seeing them enjoying their performances, building in confidence each week at classes too. She enjoys teaching them the skills, knowledge and passion of the Performing Arts. Her all time favourite moments are when student’s practice at home ready for class!
