Your Dance Journey Starts Here
Having lived and trained in London for over a decade to further her own competitive dance career, Loren returned home to Wales in 2016 when LJDC first opened its doors. Loren feels very passionately about investing in local dancers and providing them with the opportunity to compete and develop at a National level without them having to m
Having lived and trained in London for over a decade to further her own competitive dance career, Loren returned home to Wales in 2016 when LJDC first opened its doors. Loren feels very passionately about investing in local dancers and providing them with the opportunity to compete and develop at a National level without them having to make the sacrifices of travelling or moving from home in order to succeed.
Loren saw huge successes during her own competitive career, a British and United Kingdom Latin Finalist, at Youth, Amateur and Professional levels.
Upon retiring from competitive dancing, Loren had the huge honour of regularly working with BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, as well as touring for two years with Brendon Cole for his UK and Ireland Tour.
Loren now passes on her knowledge and experience to her own pupils and is immensely proud that they have achieved some of the highest accolades and are amongst the very best in the Country, Europe and The World.
Loren is Professionally qualified to Licenciate level in Both Latin American and Ballroom disciplines, enabling her to lecture and adjudicate at Championship events.
Chloe is one of our fabulous team trainers, involved in training our championship junior and adult formation teams, private lesson and class instructors, qualified to Associate level in Latin American. Our dancers and parents are always in awe when they hear the list of Chloe's competative achievements:
World U19's same sex Latin Champio
Chloe is one of our fabulous team trainers, involved in training our championship junior and adult formation teams, private lesson and class instructors, qualified to Associate level in Latin American. Our dancers and parents are always in awe when they hear the list of Chloe's competative achievements:
World U19's same sex Latin Champions
5 x Welsh Open Championships Titles
4 x Britains Best Grand Finals Titles
3 x Champions of Tomorrow Titles
4 x English Open Titles
2 x UK Championship Titles
2 x Stars of the Future Titles
2 x Western European Championship Titles
1 x All England Grand Prix Titles
To name but a few. Chloe has not competed since 2018, but her partnership is still the most successful Same-Sex Latin couple to date, having achieved and retained more major All-Girls titles than any other couple.
Jody’s primary role is in the studio’s on-site beauty salon, Prestige. Jody is an experienced Beautician and Makeup Artist and loves getting all our dancers glammed up for competitions, as well as a large base of regular local clients.
Jody is also qualified with the United Kingdom Association in Professional Latin, a qualification sh
Jody’s primary role is in the studio’s on-site beauty salon, Prestige. Jody is an experienced Beautician and Makeup Artist and loves getting all our dancers glammed up for competitions, as well as a large base of regular local clients.
Jody is also qualified with the United Kingdom Association in Professional Latin, a qualification she worked towards in order to be a Trainer of our formation teams here at LJDC.
Along with her other roles, Jody plays a significant part in the management of LJDC, administration and promotion of the studio.
Having competed from a young age herself and achieving National Finals in the Junior and Adult Formation sections, Tayla brings a huge amount of competitive experience to her teaching role here at LJDC.
Tayla teaches dancers from all age ranges as part of our Melody Bear, Litlle Latino's and Medallist social dance classes at the LJDC Ca
Having competed from a young age herself and achieving National Finals in the Junior and Adult Formation sections, Tayla brings a huge amount of competitive experience to her teaching role here at LJDC.
Tayla teaches dancers from all age ranges as part of our Melody Bear, Litlle Latino's and Medallist social dance classes at the LJDC Caerphilly Studio, along with our competitive formation teams, including Juvenile British Open Finalists.
Tayla is employed full time here at the studio as LJDC Business Co-Ordinator and plays a huge part behind the scenes of the smooth running and success of LJDC.
Lauren is an established member of our teaching staff and is doing a fantastic job in nurturing and encouraging budding talent within LJDC. Lauren is thriving in her role as a trainer with our Formation Teams and dancers in classes and private lessons are benefiting from Laurens caring and kind ways, as well as her dance knowledge and ex
Lauren is an established member of our teaching staff and is doing a fantastic job in nurturing and encouraging budding talent within LJDC. Lauren is thriving in her role as a trainer with our Formation Teams and dancers in classes and private lessons are benefiting from Laurens caring and kind ways, as well as her dance knowledge and experience.
Lauren can boast that during her competitive career, she positioned herself as one of the country's leading All Ladies Latin couples. She worked very hard to achieve Runner Up position at Britain's Best Grand Finals, Finalists at Champions of Tomorrow 2019 and Winning the All England Grand Prix at the famous and iconic Blackpool Tower Ballroom.
We are all very pleased to welcome to Shannon to the LJDC teaching team. Shannon joins us with a wealth of Ballroom and Latin competitive experience.
Shannon has been a member of many successful formation teams during her juvenile and junior career and now embraces every opportunity to pass on her knowledge and experience to the dancers
We are all very pleased to welcome to Shannon to the LJDC teaching team. Shannon joins us with a wealth of Ballroom and Latin competitive experience.
Shannon has been a member of many successful formation teams during her juvenile and junior career and now embraces every opportunity to pass on her knowledge and experience to the dancers here at LJDC.
As well as teaching private lessons and training teams at our Caerphilly based studio, Shannon will be heading up our Bargoed Community Classes. Our outreach classes in nearby communities play a huge part to the growth and success of LJDC.
Alex joined LJDC as we opened our doors for the first time. Since then we have shared so many wonderful experiences with her. She is the hardest worker and has so much dance knowledge from years and years of training and competing at the highest level. At 14 year old, Alex and her partner won Champions of Tomorrow, a title converted b
Alex joined LJDC as we opened our doors for the first time. Since then we have shared so many wonderful experiences with her. She is the hardest worker and has so much dance knowledge from years and years of training and competing at the highest level. At 14 year old, Alex and her partner won Champions of Tomorrow, a title converted by every all girl couple, along with countless other all girl titles throughout their time as junior. In 2019, Alex fought off the toughest of competition to be crowned WDC World U16 & U19 Champions! Still a competitor in some of LJDC’s most successful formation teams, Alex is also a valued member of staff. Whether she is teaching private lessons or training teams, she takes pride in every aspect of her role.
Ellie is proving herself to be as good as a teacher as she is a competitor! Having danced in Formation teams from a young age, Ellie has seen huge success with her teams including being crowned WDC AL World Masters and WDC AL UK Champions.
On an individual basis, Ellie has displayed a huge amount of determination and dedication to achie
Ellie is proving herself to be as good as a teacher as she is a competitor! Having danced in Formation teams from a young age, Ellie has seen huge success with her teams including being crowned WDC AL World Masters and WDC AL UK Champions.
On an individual basis, Ellie has displayed a huge amount of determination and dedication to achieve some of the highest accolades of any solo comptitor, these include:
7 x European Championship Titles
5 x All England Championship Titles
3 x Champions of Tomorrow Titles
2 x Stars of the Future Titles
Plus many many more.
Ellie is an extremely hard worker and is hugely committed to her own dance career as well as the development and success of the dancers here at LJDC.
Kaitlin has danced since a very young age and still has the same passion for dance as she did as a child. Over the years Kaitlin has danced in many a British Championship Final with her teams and has achieved success at Juvenile, Junior and Adult levels.
Kaitlin also has a real passion for education, self-improvement and child developme
Kaitlin has danced since a very young age and still has the same passion for dance as she did as a child. Over the years Kaitlin has danced in many a British Championship Final with her teams and has achieved success at Juvenile, Junior and Adult levels.
Kaitlin also has a real passion for education, self-improvement and child development. It was a natural choice for Kaitlin to to pursue teaching as a full time career. After 4 years of hard work and commitment, we were very proud when Kaitlin qualified as a primary school teacher.
The skills and experience Kaitlin has gained in her role as a primary school teacher has been instrumental to the success of the LJDC early years and pre-school Melody Bear movement to music programme for our youngest dancers. This, along with Kaitlin's kind and caring nature makes her a popular and valued addition to the teaching team.
Georgia joins the LJDC teaching team with a wealth of experience in education, having worked for a number of years in foundation phase and additional needs settings.
As well as her caring nature, Georgia brings qualities to LJDC such as innovation, dedication and the introduction learning through play for our younger dancers. Georgia is
Georgia joins the LJDC teaching team with a wealth of experience in education, having worked for a number of years in foundation phase and additional needs settings.
As well as her caring nature, Georgia brings qualities to LJDC such as innovation, dedication and the introduction learning through play for our younger dancers. Georgia is also a United Kingdom Formation Champion which enables her to pass on her knowledge and experience to future generations of champion's here at LJDC.
Seren has had huge success as a competitive dancer from a young age. A regular Finalist with her Formation Teams in the Northern Masters, British Open and UK Formation Championships.
Having moved up to compete in the Adult category, Seren and her team have worked extremely hard for the amazing results they have achieved, including WDC A
Seren has had huge success as a competitive dancer from a young age. A regular Finalist with her Formation Teams in the Northern Masters, British Open and UK Formation Championships.
Having moved up to compete in the Adult category, Seren and her team have worked extremely hard for the amazing results they have achieved, including WDC AL World Masters Formation Champions is a phenomenal result.
A great teacher as well as a competitor, Seren brings a wealth of formation knowledge to the teams that she has helped to train.
Ellie has joined the LJDC teaching team just has her junior career was ending and she was embarking on an exciting new chapter as an adult competitor. In her last junior year Ellie has achieved great successes both as part of our formation teams and as one half of the country's best All- Girl partnership for the 2021-2022 season. Ellie
Ellie has joined the LJDC teaching team just has her junior career was ending and she was embarking on an exciting new chapter as an adult competitor. In her last junior year Ellie has achieved great successes both as part of our formation teams and as one half of the country's best All- Girl partnership for the 2021-2022 season. Ellie and her partner Lucy have racked up the titles since pairing up in August 2021, which has seen them top the DPA/BDF Junior All Girls National League by a huge margin. Their titles include:
UK Champions
Welsh Titles Champions
3 x All England Champions
2 x Stars of the Future Champions
Plus many many more.
Lucy has had many successes during her time as a competitor at LJDC, including being a part of some of our highest standard formation teams. Lucy is very hardworking and driven, always striving to achieve her best, qualities that will serve her well as she begins her teaching journey here.
Lucy and her partner Ellie have racked up the ti
Lucy has had many successes during her time as a competitor at LJDC, including being a part of some of our highest standard formation teams. Lucy is very hardworking and driven, always striving to achieve her best, qualities that will serve her well as she begins her teaching journey here.
Lucy and her partner Ellie have racked up the titles since pairing up in August 2021, which has seen them top the DPA/BDF Junior All Girls National League by a huge margin.
Their titles include:
UK Champions
Welsh Titles Champions
3 x All England Champions
2 x Stars of the Future Champions
Plus many many more.