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Director: Mary Griffiths MA (Oxon), Cert. Ed.
Admin. HKU
Adv. Dip. Inst. of Chor., Reg. Teacher of the RAD, A.R.A.D.
Founding Director Hong Kong Ballet & HK Ballet Education Unit
Founding Principal: HK Academy of Ballet, Former Principal Dancer:
HK Ballet
Mary Griffiths was a scholar of the Royal Academy
of Dancing and a senior student at the Royal Ballet School. She
then read for a degree in mathematics at Oxford University. After
graduating she taught maths at Oxford High School and Benenden School
before going to Hong Kong with her husband.
She began dancing again and in 1979 became the
founding Artistic Director of The Hong Kong Ballet, now an internationally
recognised company with over thirty dancers. After
several years as artistic director
and principal dancer specialising in dramatic roles, she studied
Benesh notation at the Institute of Choreology, London. She was
then appointed Administrator of the Hong Kong Ballet and established
its educational unit in 1986.
During her time as Head of Mathematics at The
Chinese International School, she set up The Mary Griffiths School
of Dance in Hong Kong, establishing a dance team which toured Hong
Kong, Korea and Taiwan.
In 1994 she took her RAD teacher's certificate
with Distinction. She settled in Woodbury in July 1995, and the
ballet school was started in September of that year.
All classes are held at Woodbury Primary School,
Castle Lane, Woodbury.


Woodbury Dance Studio
Woodbury, Devon, UK
email: marygriffiths@hotmail.com
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