Miss Zoe
RBS Dip. DT, DDTAL, RAD (QTS)
Zoe is a graduate from The Royal Ballet School’s Diploma of Dance Teaching. She is a Royal Ballet School Mid and Advanced Associate teacher in London and is part of the Associates Outreach team teaching in Livorno, Italy. She has supported White Lodge students in The Royal Ballet Company's performances of The Nutcracker, The Dante Project, Like Water for Chocolate and taught at the Summer Intensive, White Lodge. Zoe has taught at Central School of Ballet Juniors and their international summer school and Tring Park on their Summer Course.
Zoe danced professionally with the Romanian National Ballet from 2012 to 2016 under the directorship of Johan Kobborg, performing in a wide variety of classical ballets such as La Fille mal Gardée by Ashton, MacMillan's Manon and Theme and Variations by Balanchine.
Teaching
Miss Zoe provides excellent ballet training where every individual student is given the opportunity to grow and excel in their learning. Students experience the joy of dance in a positive and professional learning environment, inspiring self-confidence and a lifelong love of dance.
Miss Zoe is a registered teacher with the RAD, is DBS checked, first aid trained and attends regular safeguarding training.
Carrie Taylor Johnson
Carrie trained with Marilyn Baker and Tring Park gaining Bronze at The Genée International Ballet Competition and Young British Dancer of the Year Competition 2003.
She danced worldwide with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Ballett am Rhein (soloist), New Adventures (principal), Phantom of the Opera and the Mconie Company.
She is a graduate of the Professional Dancer's Teaching Diploma 2015 and has taught at a range of vocational institutions, with a permanent place at London Studio Centre.
She has been a guest teacher for New Adventures and Yorke Dance Project and taught for the Royal Academy of Dance’s Phyllis Bedell’s Bursary and International Summer Schools. In past years Carrie was National Youth Ballet’s Associate Artistic Director. Alongside teaching, Carrie gained her BSc in Psychology & Sports Science and MSc in Applied Sport Psychology. She now lectures in Performance Psychology at The Royal Ballet Upper School and for their Teacher’s Diploma course.
What inspired you to dance?
Initially, it was watching my sisters dance, but then I watched the Fonteyn (formerly the Genée) and I knew it's what I wanted to do.
What do you enjoy most about teaching?
Sharing knowledge and supporting dancers to grow, I love seeing their progression and confidence build over time.
What is your favourite ballet?
That’s such a hard one to answer, but I was completely obsessed with Don Quixote ballet when I was younger, the Mikhail Baryshnikov and Cynthia Harvey VHS!
Isabelle Brouwers
What do you enjoy most about teaching?
What I love most about teaching is seeing the progress my students make across a week, a month, a year - it’s the most satisfying and rewarding thing to see them evolve and grow, apply feedback so diligently and flourish! And I love finding that ‘hidden spark’, that special unique thing that makes each dancer magically them - and trying to grow and develop each dancer to flourish into their best selves, to develop their own special ‘thing’ to its best - is magical!
What is your favourite ballet step?
Favourite step hands down grand jêté!
What is your most memorable performance?
Most memorable performance was my final show at ENB - Myrtha in Akram Khan’s Giselle - I’d been lucky enough to perform it all around the globe, from Moscow to Paris to Auckland, but retiring with it at the London Coliseum, a theatre I was so lucky to call home, was the most magical moment.
Isabelle is an international dancer, educator and cultural leader whose global upbringing has profoundly shaped her artistic identity.
In 2008, she left home to pursue dance professionally at The Royal Ballet School followed by the English National Ballet School, where she benefitted from formative opportunities including the Prix de Lausanne and the Genée (now Fonteyn) International Ballet Competition, winning the Silver Medal.
In 2014, Isabelle joined English National Ballet, where she went on to perform leading roles across major international stages, including the Paris Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre, Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Albert Hall. A three-time finalist in ENB’s Emerging Dancer Competition, her repertoire spans a wide range of classical and contemporary works, from Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring and Derek Deane’s Swan Lake in-the-round to Akram Khan’s Giselle for which she was part of the original creation, and William Forsythe’s Blake Works.
Under Tamara Rojo’s directorship at ENB, Isabelle was selected as the 2021/22 Dance Leader of the Future, completing leadership training at Cranfield School of Management and contributing extensively to ENB’s Ballet Futures pipeline initiative, as well as delivering dance workshops and classes for all ages with ENB’s Engagement Department.
She serves as a Trustee of London Vocational Ballet School and has recently completed the Royal Academy of Dance Professional Dancers’ Graduate Teaching Diploma with Distinction. She is now the Artistic Director of Yorkshire Ballet Seminars.
Meghan Henegan
Meghan, originally from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, was a Soloist with Cape Town City Ballet for a decade. Her impressive repertoire includes roles such as Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy in "The Nutcracker," Swanhilda in "Coppélia," the Waltz Girl in George Balanchine’s "Serenade," and Princess Florine in the Bluebird pas de deux from "The Sleeping Beauty."
in 2024 she completed her Dance Teaching Diploma with The Royal Ballet School, where she gained valuable experience teaching at both The Royal Ballet School and English National Ballet School. She has been teaching at ZEBS since January 2025.
What has been your most memorable performance?
This is a tough one! If I had to pick it would be my first Swanhilda performance in Coppelia. I loved being able to completely immerse myself in the character and performing comedy moments are always fun as well as challenging.
What do you enjoy most about teaching?
As cliche as it sounds, I love being about to pass on the joy that dancing brought me to a new generation of dancers. Ballet is a beautiful art form and it such a joy to be able to pass on my knowledge.