MAYFAIR - School of Dancing

Our Students

Lucianna Ashton
Studying Student Associate Freestyle.

(details to come)

Victoria Moore
Studying Student Associate Freestyle.

Vicki is another new addition to Mayfair as a trainee dance teacher. She started ballet dancing at the age of 4 and was introduced to disco freestyle at the age of 6. This is were she found her forte progressing her way up to champion standard by the age of 10 in Solo’s and Pairs and was part of a Champion Status Team taught by Julia for 4 years, this team remained unbeaten until it retired.

Vicki also attended Stage One for 4 years and was in numerous stage productions including productions in Germany. She also studied Dance and Performing Arts at college. She took time out from dancing to start a family but is now raring to go and become the latest in qualified dance teachers at Mayfair.

Vera Bartlett
Principal of Mayfair, Ballroom and Latin instructor. A.D.F.P Adjudicator.

I.D.T.A (International Dance Teachers Association) A.D.F.P. and N.A.T.D. (National Association of Teachers of Dancing)

Vera has 35 years of experience as a dance teacher. And in those years has taught beginners and champions in all areas of dancing. She mainly focuses her attention on the adult classes at Mayfair for Ballroom and Latin, Country & Western, Salsa and private lessons for Adults.

Vera also takes the children for Ballroom and Latin. She is a highly qualified and experienced dance teacher with years of adjudicating all over, near and far. She has been running Mayfair for many years now and has a team of 11 staff that help with all the classes, competitive teaching and private lessons. She is a member of the I.D.T.A. N.A.T.D and the A.D.F.P. With the school now ranking one of the top in the area she continues to get satisfaction and enjoyment seeing people learning to dance.

Vera is a highly respected business women in Grimsby and regularly contributes to the Diabetic Society through Mayfair’s school dance shows. Being able to contribute to charity by helping people to dance ticks all the right boxes in Vera’s eyes and will continue to contribute to the community through her teaching for years to come.

Julie Herrick
Ballroom and Latin instructor. Line Dancing and Salsa instructor.

I.D.T.A. (International Dance Teachers Association)
N.A.T.D. (National Association of Teachers of Dancing)

Julie in originally from Peterborough. She started dancing Ballet and tap at the age of 4. Her mum said she complained the teacher squeezed her hand to hard, so her future in ballet ended! At 8 years old Julie started Ballroom dancing and has not looked back since.

She braked for a couple of years whilst moving to Luton and then here to Grimsby where she took up figure skating but soon went back to her first love Ballroom dancing.

Julie joined the studio when it was still known as Lillians Dance Studio and was taught by Lorna. She went on from strength to strength and is now a fully qualified teacher in both Latin American, Ballroom and Line Dancing.
Julie loves to see children learning the beautiful art of Ballroom and Latin and not just freestyle disco and thinks the new programme of Strictly Come Dancing has revived this style of dancing. It demands grace, effort and control and hopes all the children she teaches now will continue to love and dance Ballroom and Latin for a long time to come. She is extremely proud of all her dancers.

Julia Bartlett
Associate Freestyle instructor and A.D.F.P Adjudicator.

Associate Latin-American qualified with N.A.T.D (National Association of Teachers of Dancing). and Associate Freestyle Disco, qualified with I.D.T.A. (International Dance Teachers Association).

Julia is the daughter of Vera Bartlett the principal of Mayfair and therefore had a very early introduction to the dancing world. Julia has been dancing now since the age of 3 and now has 30 years of dancing experience. Julia started with Latin American and Ballroom dancing very young with the tuition of Lorna Buckle and Lillian Buckle from Lillian’s Dance School (now known as Mayfair School of Dancing). She continued to learn Ballroom and Latin up to the age of 16 at which point she had completed all of her Latin and Ballroom exams and had competed in many competitions around the area with Julia and her partner winning many awards.

At the age of 10 Julia was introduced to the world of disco and has not looked back since. She is now fully qualified in Latin American (N.A.T.D.) and Freestyle Disco (I.D.T.A) and over the years has taught many people which have achieved championship status including Hannah, Danielle, Emma, Claire and Vicki all now teachers at Mayfair, more of Julia’s dancers have moved on to prosperous careers in the world of dancing and even appeared on TV or the West end.
Julia has been teaching for 17 years. She teaches a varied range of dancing including Freestyle Disco, Hip Hop/Street Dance, Rock ‘n’ Roll and Slow dance with ages ranging from 3 upwards and also instructs at workshops to improve dancing techniques and share knowledge. Julia has taught many dance teams, all of which achieved championship status in the dancing world. She participates in the general running of Mayfair with her mum Vera, Julie and Hannah with the organising of Competitions, Dance Shows, Workshops and the running of Mayfair’s Website. Julia is now a recognised adjudicator with the A.D.F.P and judges at many competitions all over the area.

Julia also works full time as a Graphic Designer at a local company and also designs all the promotional literature for the dance school. She has designed many dance school logo’s in the Grimsby and Lincolnshire area.

Julia continues to produce dancers of championship status and works hard maintaining her two current Champion Status Teams. She knows her dancers are secure in the knowledge of how proud she is of them, always. And that she will continue to try and make them the best they can be.

Danielle Smith
Associate Freestyle instructor.

Student Associate Freestyle, with N.A.T.D.

Danielle has been dancing since the age of 5, learning Freestyle Disco, Street Dance, Slow Dance, Rock ‘n’ Roll and being a team member of a Championship Team. She was trained by various teachers including Julia and achieved intermediate and Champ Status in her Freestyle Dancing. She decided to end her career as a competitor to become a teacher in the style of dancing she loves so much. She was highly successful in the dancing world and has many trophies under belt and also won many prizes including holidays for her family.

At the age of 19 Danielle now has many years of dance experience behind her. She has already achieved good results as a trainee teacher with children as young as 3 winning major competitions in the area. Her ambition is to become a top Championship trainer and lead her dancers on to become as successful as her in all areas of dance.

Danielle also works as a full time nursery nurse, were she excels as a carer for babies and young children. She loves her career and is fantastic at what she does. Danielle has a certain charisma with the children and is able to bring out the best in them. With this talent Danielle will be sure to take all the dancers of Mayfair to the top.

Katie Oddie
Musical Theatre teacher.

Katie is one of the latest to join Mayfair as our Musical Theatre teacher. She started performing when she was 6, doing ballet, tap, modern and disco. She was also a member of Stage One Theatre Company from the age of 6, taking part in many stage productions, to recording a song with the chart toppers Jive bunny! And performing in London and Germany. She stayed with the theatre group for 12 years until she left Grimsby to study drama and performance at university and left with a degree in drama, performance and education.

Katie’s main ambition in life was to become a primary school teacher which took 4 years of hard learning and preparation. She achieved her degree and now teaches children aged 7-9 at Healing Primary school.

Away from work, Katie is a member of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Operatic Society in which she has performed as one of the main leads at a sell out performance showing at the Grimsby Auditorium. She also sings with Hannah in the girl group ‘Sweet Harmony’ and achieved quite a fan bases around Grimsby where they perform on a regular basis.