Based in Scarborough, Kate Buchan has almost thirty years' teaching experience and is currently an Independent Dance Instructor with Public Liability Insurance and PRS & PPL music licences. She started dancing as a young mum, and took lessons at a local dance school for many years, completing all her B.A.T.D. Amateur Examinations in Modern Ballroom, Latin American & Disco (now known as Freestyle), gaining Highly Commended in every exam. She also represented the school in B.A.T.D. Dance Competitions (North Eastern Region) in all three disciplines. Kate was asked to help teach in adult classes in 1994, and subsequently worked for many years as an Assistant Dance Teacher, teaching mainly Adult Ballroom & Latin American, including some of the most popular sequence dances.
 

Kate also taught as an Assistant Dance Teacher in evening classes for North Yorkshire County Council (Adult Education) for several years. She was also employed to teach dance to teenage foreign students at Scarborough College International Summer School where she was the Dance Instructor for the two summers the School ran, and also assisted teaching entrants at the hugely successful St Catherine's Hospice 'Strictly' Fundraising event in the summer of 2012.
 

Other roles have included choreographing wedding dances, choreographing short dance sequences for scenes in SJT Youth Theatre productions, providing & training adult Social Dancers for the play 'Kiss Me Quickstep' at the Stephen Joseph Theatre (2016) - see photograph below - and providing an associated dance workshop.

 

Kate has taught as an Independent Dance Instructor for over ten years now, and classes have grown from just two a week, to several classes, plus private lessons. Kate focuses on teaching simple routines in popular Ballroom & Latin American dances, for social occasions, fun & fitness. She is currently studying towards a B.A.T.D. Associate Professional Examination in Modern Ballroom, which will allow her to enter candidates for B.A.T.D. examinations if they so wish.

 

Sequence Dancing Class:  please see separate page for more information, or ring 07761 061899 to enquire.