Louise Hawke
ARAD Rts, BBO Rts
Louise is a former Principal dancer of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the Hong Kong Ballet and a soloist of the National Ballet of Portugal. She was Guest Ballet Mistress for the Singapore Dance Theatre and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Born in Auckland, Louise began ballet at the age of 3, training with Rowena Jackson of the Royal Ballet, New Zealand's most famous ballerina. She gained her RAD Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced with Honours and is now a Registered Teacher with both the RAD and the BBO. Louise competed in competitions from the age of 5 until 15 and is proudly a second generation ballet teacher.
She has taught at seminars in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and NZ, opening the Academy of Ballet Arts in New Zealand in 2003. From inception the studio maintained an excellent record of Distinction and High Merit Awards in both RAD and BBO syllabus, and in NZAMD Jazz and Contemporary exams. Senior students have been consistently accepted for the NZ School of Dance Associate programmes, the RNZB mentor programme, and for international tertiary training.
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