KILCOCK | ROSCOMMON | BOYLE | TULLAMORE
teachers
Ruth Mc Dermott
RAD Life Registered Teacher
Ruth Mc Dermott is a highly experienced Royal Academy of Dance registered ballet teacher. She started her training at Grade level and took all her major [vocational] examinations up to Advanced. Ruth has also completed all levels of the Dance Educational Syllabus [character] and has been a member of the RAD for 35 years. Since then Ruth has been teaching the RAD Grades syllabus, constantly achieving excellent examination results at all levels. She is fully committed to Continuous Professional Development and regularly attends RAD courses. Ruth also works as a chaperone at the RAD summer school at the Academy’s headquarters in London. She has produced and choreographed her students in many productions and competitions. Ruth has Garda clearance and has completed the HSE ‘Children First’ and ‘Keeping Safe’ training. Through her interest in working with teenagers she is also ‘ASSIST’ trained and has trained abroad on how to initiate innovative and creative projects for young people.
Mrs. Mc Dermott is also a Life Registered Teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance
Trisha Mc Dermott
BA Ballet Education,
RAD RTS,
ARAD,
LRAD Level 1-3
DDI & DDE
Trisha’s dance career began at a very early age having grown up within the Mc Dermott School of Classical Ballet. By the age of 16 she had successfully made her way through all the Graded syllabus examinations.
Trisha studied at The Royal Academy of Dance in London, gaining her BA in Ballet Education. Trisha has completed the RAD Licentiate course, the highest award associated with the academy. Having successfully completed all three levels she achieved her Vocational Advanced Two Examination and was invited to become an associate member of the Royal Academy of Dance as well as a registered teacher. As of July 2009 Trisha moved back to Ireland and is now a principal of the Mc Dermott School of Classical Ballet & Dance. Trisha runs the Kilcock, Boyle the Saturday school in Roscommon town. She also provides students with Royal Academy of Dance vocational classes passing on her extensive knowledge of the syllabus to the senior students.
Trisha also works as a professional choreographer and has worked on music videos and with several musical societies.
She has successfully developed a schools programme in conjunction with the department of educations policy on dance in physical education and travels to many schools delivering dance workshops.
Trisha also has both a Diploma in Dance Instruction & a Diploma in Dance Education. She is a qualified teacher with the ISTD, teaching the modern theatre syllabus. Trisha is now a member of the Royal Academy of Dance Ireland Regional Advisory Committee. Trisha has also recently qualified as an instructor for DDMIX (Diverse Dance Mix)
Kathy Young
RAD RTS
“Kathy Young began her dance training in ballet at the age of four, moving on to join Dublin
Youth Dance Company at sixteen where she studied, trained, and performed in contemporary
dance. This led to her studies at University of Limerick and was awarded with a first-class
honour’s degree in Voice & Dance in 2017.
During her time at University, Kathy had the opportunity to study ballet and modern at
Inchicore College of Further Education. She also travelled to Kuopio, Finland to study dance
pedagogy and worked at Kuopio Dance Festival. Since then, she has performed with the
Step-Up Dance Project working with well-known dance artists in Ireland. She has been
teaching ballet, musical theatre, hip hop and contemporary within various performing arts
centres and schools in Leinster.
More recently, Kathy has been awarded a Certificate in Ballet Teaching with the Royal
Academy of Dance and is also an Acrobatic Arts certified teacher.”
Christine Press
RAD RTS
Christine Press started dancing at the age of 5, and grew up taking Royal Academy of
Dance (RAD) exams in England, Ireland and New Zealand, before starting Vaganova
training with the Ballet Manila company in The Philippines. After taking pre-professional
classes until finishing high school, and being unable to take up a place offered on the RAD’s Dance Education degree, Christine went on to pursue a degree in her other passion, Zoology. She never lost her love of ballet, and started as a part-time ballet assistant teacher whilst doing zoology work in Malawi in 2008. After working in international schools in Thailand and Mozambique, assisting with dance teaching and choreography, Christine was accepted on the RAD’s Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies (CBTS) course in South Africa in 2017, entering the first ever RAD exam candidates from Mozambique in 2019. Arriving back in Ireland from an international school in Senegal at the start of the Covid pandemic, she continued teaching her students from Mozambique and Senegal online until 2024, with several successfully completing their filmed examinations. Since 2022, Christine has beenthe National Manager for the RAD in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and took a couple of years away from teaching to focus on this position. Now, Christine is excited to rediscover her greatest passion of sharing her love of ballet with students of all ages and backgrounds.
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