About Mary Griffiths

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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