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Julie Headford

Julie Headford

Julie was bought up in a theatrical family with her Mother already involved in the dance world and her Father, a Stage Manager for nearly all the local area’s amateur musical productions. It was no surprise then that Julie’s first job was as a dancer touring the Casinos of Portugal. For the next seven years Julie worked constantly in the entertainment business both as a dancer, working all over the country and Europe in Pantomimes and Revues alongside great performers including Roy Hudd, Norman Collier and Freddie and the Dreamers! as well as working on the technical side and was Road Manager for a Summer Revue touring the south West of England.

In 1988 Julie returned to Bournemouth and began assisting her Mother at the Stage Door School of Dance & Drama and started her new journey along the path of teaching qualifications. Julie is now a fully qualified teacher for the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance in Modern, Tap, Ballet and National Dance and holds the highest level of teaching qualification as a Fellow member of the ISTD. Not only does Julie teach with her Mother at the main School in Bournemouth but is also responsible for running the busy branch Schools in Christchurch, Bransgore and Sopley.

Julie manages The Stage Door’s Cabaret dance act, “STARBURST DANCERS” which, since their formation, have worked all over the country in theatre productions, corporate events and conferences.