About Us

Principle, and Ballet teacher

Oonagh founded Bourn to Dance in 2014, and teaches all ballet classes herself.

Ballet has always been part of Oonagh's life. Her childhood was filled with ballet classes, exams and performances, as her mother ran a ballet school too! She found a love of theatre through her dance training, and did a BA (Hons) in French and Drama. Oonagh then worked for 20 years in book publishing in London, for publishers such as Bloombury, Penguin, DK, Walker Books and Kingfisher. She also studied and taught stage combat for ten years - choreographing fights for the stage! In her late twenties, when her mother needed help with her dance school, Oonagh started teaching some ballet classes. She realised how much she loves teaching, and decided to qualify to teach with the ISTD. She then opened her own ballet school in Islington, where she lived. She ran that school while also working part time in publishing. When she was pregnant with her first daughter in 2007, Oonagh sold her dance school, and moved to Cambridgeshire. She had a second daughter, and then opened Bourn to Dance in 2014.

Contemporary teacher

Jenna is a Dance Artist from Cambridgeshire. She trained with the National Youth Dance Company England at Sadler’s Wells after getting into dance during her studies at Impington Village College. Aged 18, Jenna attended the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds where she received a 1st class honours in Performance. After graduating, she joined Jasmin Vardimon 2 as a young dancer, touring the UK. Alongside teaching Contemporary Dance at Bourn to Dance, Jenna has been working as a dancer for various dance and theatre companies across the country, as well as pursuing her own practice with a ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ grant from Arts Council England.