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Associate Choreographer

Patricia has spent most of her career in classical ballet. She started dancing at the age of four, and had her first job in pantomime at fifteen. At seventeen she played the Fairy Godmother opposite Cliff Richard at the London Palladium. At eighteen she spent two years with The Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, then returned to London to join The London Festival Ballet (English National Ballet). Within a year she was promoted to leading soloist, and danced many soloist and principal roles including: Swanilda in COPP?LIA, Lead girl in GRADUATION BALL, Fairy Godmother in CINDERELLA, Zobeide in SCHEHERAZADE and many more. She then joined The Scottish Ballet as a Leading Principal Dancer, dancing most of the leading roles in the classical repertoire including: SWAN LAKE, GISELLE, NUTCRACKER and SLEEPING BEAUTY. Patricia has also guested with many leading ballet companies. With her love of Musical Theatre she started taking singing lessons and then made the transition into Musical Theatre as the Ballet Leader in the musical ON YOUR TOES, where she also understudied Natalia Makarova in the leading role. Patricia was an original member of the London cast of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA as dancer, dance- captain, understudy to Madame Giry and then went on to be assistant choreographer and assistant resident director. She was also the resident director on the UK tour. She is now a freelance choreographer, and has been the associate choreographer on many productions of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA worldwide. She also teaches Musical Theatre classes and is an assessor for Trinity College London and Council for Dance Education and Training.