About The Dance Kingdom
The Dance Kingdom was established in 1985 and has grown from strength to strength since. We cover a variety of dance styles such as Ballroom, Latin American, Classical & Modern Sequence, Street, Tap, Modern, Jazz to name a few. We have a dedicated Team of Professionally highly qualified Dance Teachers awaiting to teach you and welcome you to the world of dance.
Meet the Dance Kingdom Team
Principal of Dance Kingdom
Fellow (Ballroom, Member (Latin) & Life Member of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing
Licentiate (Ballroom and Classical) and Associate (Street) of the United Kingdom Alliance
Associate (Ballroom) of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing
ISTD Contemporary Social Dance and Dance Exercise Diploma
UKA Viennese Waltz, Street & Argentine Tango Diplomas
NATD Ballroom Dancing Diploma I
Licensed Championship Adjudicator
Principal of Dance Kingdom
Fellow and Examiner of the United Kingdom Alliance
Fellow (Latin) & Licentiate (Ballroom) of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing
UKA Viennese Waltz, American Smooth, Argentine Tango & Street Diplomas
Committee Member of the Welsh Alliance of Teachers of Dancing
Licensed Championship Adjudicator
BDC Licensed Scrutineer
Dance Representative on the Carmarthenshire Local Sports Council
Julie is a Fellow & Examiner of the UKA in all the Ballroom branches and holds a Fellowship Latin & Licentiate Ballroom with the ISTD. She is a Championship Adjudicator and Qualified Scrutineer and has been privileged to adjudicate all over the country and Ireland. Julie feels very proud that she has been invited to adjudicate at the Blackpool Classical Championships on numerous occasions.
With her husband Michael, Julie established the Dance Kingdom, Llanelli in 1985, enjoying all aspects of dance from social dancers & children through to Welsh and International Champions. Whilst training others Michael & Julie also competed in Ballroom as professionals, training with world famous coaches such as Peggy Spencer MBE, Bob Burgess & Elizabeth Romaine and for a number of years successfully competing in Inventive Dance competitions. Most recently, Julie & Michael were very proud to have won the BDC inventive on-line inventive dance competition in 2020 with their Paso Mijas. They also represented Great Britain at the International Dance of the Year competition with their Scola Swing ( known locally as the OLE dance).
Julie has served as a committee member of the Welsh Professional Dance Teachers of the UKA since 1985, and, served as Chairman for 3 years and is now Treasurer. She organizes on behalf of the committee the Welsh Border Counties Championships (Ballroom & Latin ), the Welsh Border Counties Solo Championships (Ballroom, Latin & Classical ) and the Welsh Freestyle & Street Medallist Competitions and, is very keen to get younger members to join our group so that we may continue to develop dancing in Wales.
Licentiate (Latin) of the United Kingdom Alliance
Licentiate (Ballroom) of the United Kingdom Alliance
Associate (Rock n Roll) of the United Kingdom Alliance
BDC Licensed scruitineer & Championship Adjudicator
Chairman of the Welsh Professional Dance Teachers of the UKA
Former Professional UK Closed 10 Dance Finalist
Former Welsh Ballroom & Latin Closed Amateur Champion
Phillip started dancing at the Dance Kingdom in Llanelli with Michael Pharaoh & Julie Williams, when he was 8 years old (a long time ago now) and is where he has continued to train to this day. It all started socially before quickly catching the dancing bug and wanting to become involved and be part of the very successful Dance Kingdom Medallist Team before starting to compete on the “open circuit” and later establishing himself as a leading Welsh Junior Ballroom & Latin dancer. Phillip then moved into the Youth category and became multiple Welsh Youth Ballroom & Latin Champion with two separate partners.
In 2009 Phillip found that he no longer had a dance partner and decided that he would try to dance with his soon to be wife Gaynor (married in July 2009) however knew that this would be a challenge that many people thought would never work as Gaynor had never danced prior to meeting Phillip. Gaynor had started to learn to dance so that she could dance socially with Phillip at social events, and never thought that this would to lead to the wonderful life in which they now share. Phillip had entered for the British Open championships in Blackpool in which was their first ever competition together, which went well despite the nerves. A few weeks later narrowly missed out on making the final at Stars of the Future in Brentwood which was the springboard they needed and let’s just say they never looked back… and have since gone on to become:
- Winners of Champions of tomorrow U/35 Pre Championship Ballroom
- Welsh Closed National Amateur Ballroom & Latin Champions
- Ranked Number 1 in Wales in Amateur Ballroom, Latin & 10 Dance
- British Modern Sequence Finalists
- British Latin Sequence Runners Up
- Represented Wales at World & European Championships in Ballroom, Latin & 10 dance all over the world including USA, Russia, Germany, Norway, Denmark & Australia
- UK Closed Professional 10 Dance Finalists
Licentiate (Latin) of the United Kingdom Alliance
Licentiate (Ballroom) of the United Kingdom Alliance
Associate (Rock n Roll) of the United Kingdom Alliance
BDC Licensed Championship Adjudicator
Member of the Welsh Professional Dance Teachers of the UKA
Former Professional UK Closed 10 Dance Finalist
Former Welsh Closed Amateur Ballroom & Latin champion
Associate (Ballroom, Latin and Classical) of the United Kingdom Alliance
Colette is a key member of the Dance Kingdom teaching team and is available for Personal Lessons by appointment only
Life Member with the United Kingdom Alliance.
