Katy Sinnadurai
Ballet Mistress
Katy was born in London and trained at the Arts Education School, and at Central School of Ballet. Just before graduation in 1987, she gained a contact as a corps de ballet dancer with the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, where she remained for three years. During this time she danced in all the major classical ballets, some modern works and operas, and toured with the company to other European cities.
On her return to London in 1990, Katy joined the London City Ballet, dancing at Sadler's Wells and touring throughout the UK and abroad for the next four years. With this company, Katy danced in more productions from the classical ballet repertoire, and began to perform a few solo roles. She particularly enjoyed the more dramatic roles, such as Lady Capulet in "Romeo and Juliet", and Emilia in "Othello".
After seven years as a professional basllet dancer, and with over 1000 performances behind her, Katy retired from the stage in 1996 to bring up her young family, and moved to Brecon in 2000. Since then she has become qualified as an exercise instructor, a Pilates matwork teacher, and in 2007 passed her Dance Teaching qualification with distinction.
Katy now teaches a variety of classes in Brecon, including Body Conditioning and Back Care at Brecon Leisure Centre, and private exercise sessions. She joined Ribbons Ballet School in 2007 to teach ballet to the more senior pupils in the school.
Katy believes that her experience as a former professional dancer and a Pilates instructor can help these students in their regular ballet classes, pointework classes, Pilates and repertoire sessions.
Together with Lesley Walker and Paul Shalcross, she choreographed a new ballet, "Etudes", which was performed by the students at Theatr Brycheiniog in 2008.