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 many 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!
Throughout this time, Oonagh went to ballet classes regularly, and having taught some classes at her mother’s school, she studied to become a ballet teacher with the ISTD. Oonagh opened her first ballet school in Islington, north London in 1997. 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.
