Kettering
Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School Kettering is the original Starlight school founded in 2009 and moved into its current location at the heart of the town in 2010. The school underwent huge growth and redeveloped a former nightclub over the years to create its permanent home, which has now become an important part of Kettering's community.
The school boasts a varied portfolio covering a wide range of dance and theatre genres. Here at Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School we are proud to be affiliated with the world's leading examination boards in classical dance: Royal Academy of Dance, Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, and Acrobatic Arts.
Students of Starlight Kettering have performed in some of the major London theatres including His Majesty's Theater, Sadlers' Wells and the Royal Albert Hall. Students have also performed at many other prestigious locations including Disneyland Paris, Thorpe Park, and Wembley Stadium for the FA Cup Final and Rugby League Challenge Cup Final.
The school specialises in large-scale production shows with at least two annually. The school relentlessly pursues excellence in the training it gives to its students and has many students train further in London based dance colleges.
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Kettering Faculty
Jacc Batch BA(Hons) ISTD
Founder and Managing Director
Jacc started performing at a young age and is a professionally trained dance teacher and singer. Trained in most genres of dance, Jacc majored in Ballet, Lyrical, Contemporary, Commercial, Tap, Modern, Physical Theatre and Musical Theatre. He graduated with BA (Hons) in Dance and Musical Theatre from Cumbria Institute of the Arts in 2007 and has since worked as a professional dancer and singer both touring the UK and working abroad. Jacc has taught at various dance schools and performing arts centres around the UK, before founding Starlight Dance and Musical Theatre School in February 2009 and since then it has grown beyond expectation. Jacc's training included Kettering Academy of Dance, The Jean Harris School of Dance and Sylvia Young's Theatre School where he worked through the RAD and ISTD exam framework to qualify as a dance teacher.
Larissa Martin RAD RTS
Teacher
Larissa has been the Principal of Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School Corby since it opened in 2014 and is a qualified ballet teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance. At the age of 2, Larissa began training at Marjorie King's School of dance in Ballroom, Disco, Latin American and Classical Sequence. Then at the age of 16, she joined Starlight where she later found her love for classical ballet, commercial, contemporary and pointe. Over the years she has continued to train in various styles such as Musical Theatre, Commercial, Contemporary/Lyrical, ISTD Modern and Pointe work and has gained distinctions in all of her RAD ballet exams up to Grade 8. In 2018, she qualified as a Royal Academy of Dance Ballet teacher and began teaching ballet at Starlight in 2019. Since then, Larissa has entered students for their exams at Starlight through the RAD and they have achieved fantastic results.
Natalie Částka BA(Hons)
Teacher
Natalie has been performing since the age of four. After appearing in productions with various local theatre companies, she went on to complete her BA (Hons) in Acting for Theatre, Film and Television from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Since graduating, Natalie continues to work as a professional actress, and has toured extensively in the UK and Ireland, and has performed a one-woman play in the USA. She also danced in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and has appeared in several music videos and short films. Natalie has also lent her voice to many audiobooks, magazines and articles for the RNIB. Natalie began teaching our drama classes in January 2014, and private vocal lessons in 2019. As well as directing our drama productions, she also writes all of the scripts.
Winnie Tam RAD RTS
Teacher
Winnie is a classically trained RAD ballet teacher at our Kettering school and specialises in our early years ballet students. She first joined our team as maternity cover and we were very pleased to be able to keep her on and in the winter or 2024 Winnie entered her first set of students for exams. Winnie also has her own children now enrolled into the school and continues to excel with her classes.
Rhianna Davies
Teacher
Rhianna has been training at Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School since 2009. She started teaching in November 2019 and is now the teacher for Starlight Daventry and Starlight Rushden. Rhianna has taken many classes that Starlight has offered over the past 15 years and trained in RAD Ballet, ISTD Tap and Modern, Pointe, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Commercial, Contemporary, Street Dance, Acro and others. Rhianna has also completed exams in Ballet, Modern, Tap and Contemporary. In August 2020, Rhianna completed her training in the Acrobatic Arts and became a qualified teacher in Acro, which she teaches in our Kettering, Corby and Rushden schools. She has won national competitions with Starlight Kettering and taken part in many production shows, drama shows, singing and review shows, as well as taking part in local and larger events such as performing at the Royal Albert Hall and Disneyland Paris.
Joshua Jackson
Teacher
JJ is a street dance and hip-hop teacher at Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School, currently teaching at 2 of our schools; Kettering and Corby. He started learning to dance at the age of 6 where he fell in love with Street and Hip-Hop dance styles and has continued to progress ever since. JJ started teaching at the age of 14 at various other dance schools, finding his way to Starlight in April 2022, where he believes he has found his home! JJ now has started to train in other styles such as Tap to support his teaching and further his personal dance training.
Vicki Becks
Teacher
Vicki has been teaching at Starlight since the opening of the Kettering School, running choirs, providing private vocal lessons and more recently assisting with Musical Theatre. More commonly known on the local music scene as The Little Lady with the big voice! Vicki is a highly versatile performer who has sung in theatres and backed 60s chart stars.
Rana Williams BA(Hons)
Teacher
Rana began her training at a young age at Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School specialising in commercial dance. She quickly stood out with her amazing singing voice and joined our choir before heading off to university to study Musical Theatre. After returning from university, Rana joined the team and now supports the musical theatre class and offers private singing lessons.
Heidi Agan
School Administrator
Heidi joined the Starlight team in 2023 as part of the Front of House team and the Head Office team. Her main responsibility is to manage the dancers accounts and is the Account manager for our Gold customers. Heidi is not only a popular figure at Starlight but she is internationally well known for her side line business as a professional Kate Middleton look alike and regularly appears in local and national media.
Alexander Flint
Front of House
Alexander has been training at Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School for over 10 years. He has developed from a shy young performer to an outstandingly talented dancer and performer training in Ballet, Tap, Commercial and Musical Theatre. Alex started working on Front of House when he was 16 and is a valued member of the team using his wit and charm to welcome our customers.
Where to Find Us
Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School
57 - 61 High Street
Kettering, NN16 8SY