Local dance teacher awarded fellowship

Pamela Kerr has been awarded the Fellowship of the Cecchetti Society, affiliated with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (UK). Kerr is the senior assistant at The Dance Workshop and is also a leading ballerina.

Kerr started her ballet training at the age of five under Theresa Lungaro-Mifsud at the Tanya Bayona Academy and was one of the academy's first students to pass her advanced 2 examination when The Dance Workshop first opened in 1999. In 2004, she became the first Maltese dancer to pass her Enrico Cecchetti Diploma.

The Cecchetti Method is renowned for its strict teaching system, co-ordination of movement, purity of line, use of rhythm of its allegro steps and its trademark port de bras. Cecchetti pupils include Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky and Ninette de Valois, who founded The Royal Ballet in London.