BA(Hons) & MA Contemporary Dance Performance
Secondary Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
Louisa Keohane graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) with first class honours back in 2005 and went on to work as the last apprentice dancer with Phoenix Dance Theatre under Darshan Singh Bhuller. She toured the USA, performed at Holland Dance Festival and toured the UK with Phoenix Dance Theatre’s triple bill including Forest (under Bob Cohen) and Bhuller’s Planted Seeds. Louisa has also had the privilege to have worked with artists such as Jan de Schinkel, Liv Lorent, Arthur Pita and Kiera Martin. She has worked with Phoenix Dance Company founder Donald Edwards, dancing in community performances and helping to support boys in dance.
Louisa become a free-lance artist in 2007 and remains self-employed, teaching and choreographing. She completed a teaching qualification in 2009, and has worked for a local high school ever since. She also teaches the Phoenix Youth company academy, and recently returned to perform her own choreographed work at the Playhouse.
Louisa currently teaches full time in a local high school, but has also begun to teach teachers and student teachers at both Leeds Beckett and at Leeds Trinity university. She has delivered lectures with ONEDANCE UK online for dance and drama teachers.
As well as dancing and teaching, Louisa enjoys travelling, having visited over 65 countries to date, and she enjoys writing, and keeps a blog: lousponderings.wordpress.com.
