Welcome to Les Pas de Ballet

Suzuka Aoki

ARAD, RTS, CBTS, BSc, MSc

Originally from Japan, Suzi started dancing at very young age. She came to the UK at fourteen to study ballet, contemporary, jazz and musics at the Arts Educational School, Tring Park. She completed Grade 8 Piano and RAD Advanced 2 with Distinction.

A back injury then prevented her from further dancing, she went on to achieve her BSc in Economics Development at School of Oriental and African studies, University of London. At the same time, she also studied with Alan Herdman and gaining the Pilates Teachindg Certificate. In 2004 she began to teach ballet and played piano for classes, gained formal teaching status with the RAD's CBTS programme. Suzi then studied MSc in Dance Science at the Laban Institute, where she learnt about dancer's health and the prevention of injury to dancers. At Laban Institute, Suzi also learnt to apply anatomical and biomechanical principles to teaching ballet steps to optimising dancers' performance. Since she became a teacher, she achieved grade 8 RAD ballet examination with 100% Distinction. Suzi is currently a freelance ballet teacher at schools in and around London including her old school's outreach programme, Classical Ballet Academy of Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Bespoke Private Lessons

Suzi offers caring, nurturing, personalised bespoke private ballet lessons to maximise student's potential in dance and classical ballet training. These private sessions are tailored to focus on the goals of the individual student, whether for a vocational career in dance, rehabilitation from injury or as an enhancement to general progression in ballet.

Suzi has vast knowledge and applies principles of Biomechanics, Physiology, Anatomy, Pilates, Progressive Ballet Techniques etc with the traditional classical ballet technique to optimise the health of dance students and so enable dancers to perform their full potential to a high standard.

Combining Suzi's undevided attention and student' determined hard work will guarantee an improvement in classical ballet training.

Students' achievements;

- Full time placement at Royal Ballet School, White Lodge

- Full time placement at Tring Park Performing Arts School for the Performing Arts

- Full time placement at Elmhurst Ballet School

- Royal Ballet School Summer and Spring Intensives

- Royal Ballet School Junior Associates programme

- RAD Intermediate Distinctions above 80%

- RAD Intermediate Foundation Distinction 92%