Amy Loring – Dance Tutor
Ardour Family, Dance, Yoga and Wellbeing Tutors
SalsaOur team have carefully selected approachable, skilful and empowering teachers to deliver a variety of dance style and fitness classes, as well as experienced practitioners delivering weekly yoga classes, and regular mindfulness and mental well-being courses.
A distinctive part of Ardour Academy includes life coaching and counselling session with experienced and accredited counsellors and psychotherapist which can be booked in advance.
Alexa – Mundo Dance and Choreograph
Colombian-born dancer and choreographer Alexa has been teaching dance since the age of 15 and now teaches a range of classes for people of all ages across South Wales. Trained in Colombia and then at Cardiff’s Rubicon Dance on the 2-year full-time dance programme,...
Gwenan Evans – Tai chi Tutor
Gwenan has been a tai chi and qigong practitioner for over 20 years, and a qualified Lee Family Style Tai Chi instructor since 2007. She has made several trips to China to refine and deepen her understanding of the internal arts, learning Five Animal Qigong forms both...
Sophie – Arabic Dance
Sophie first discovered the joy of belly dancing during her second year at medical school 11 years ago, and has been in love with it ever since. She took classes in Oxford in Egyptian style dancing, then moved to London and started training with the Josephine Wise...
Eddie Hunt – Salsa Tutor
Eddie Hunt teaches Salsa every Wednesday at Ardour Academy. Here is a little about him: “In my mind I was born in 2003 when I discovered the world of salsa. After travelling around both England and Europe experiencing different dance styles and a variety of salsa...
Tef – Salsa Tutor
Tef Jansma teaches beginners/improvers Salsa every Wednesday at Ardour. Here’s a little about him “Dancing for me used to be just some random bouncing on monotone beats with a beer in my hand. Some 5 years ago that changed. At that time a friend of mine was down after...
Danielle – Yoga Tutor
One of my teachers once told me that “until you have been practicing yoga for at least 10 years, you are still a beginner.” 20 years of practice and teaching down the line and I now realise how right she was! There is so much to learn and in turn, share with my...
Cristina Sciarrillo – Yema Dance
I am a Performance Artist and the Creative Director of Yema Dance, an Afro-Brazilian Dance Platform.
Sara Sirati – Kizomba Tutor
Sara: nothing in life quite managed to fulfil me or make me feel satisfied until I discovered dance again as an adult. I loved my gymnastic and dance classes as a youngster, but dancing as an adult had more of a purpose! I knew I wanted to keep fit, I needed an...
Tara Sirati – Kizomba Tutor
Tara: I have grown up in a family where dance and music were a strong part of our upbringing, although I never gave much thought or attention to either! I was dragged to a Kizomba class 7 years ago and I immediately fell in love with it! I understood the music and...
Jess Li – Flexibility Tutor
Jess: I have done gymnastics since I was little and still do it now; and I have coached gymnastics for the last 12 years. Also I've been doing aerial silks for 4 years. What I would love to achieve in these classes is to break the myth that flexibility is an...
Jack Philp – Ballet & Contemporary Tutor
Jack: Jack trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and works as a freelance dance artist, choreographer and teacher. He has performed work by choreographers including Matthias Sperling, Anna Williams and Wayne McGregor as well as shadowed different...
Sue Pesticcio – Tango Tutor
Sue: I have been dancing and continuing to study Argentine Tango for the last 18 years. Being one the first members of Tango Y Nada Mas - Cardiff (the first tango club in Wales) I have learned with some of the best visiting maestros from Argentina. While living in...
Mat Roblin – Yoga Tutor
Mat: I love and get excited about Yoga. I’m an Ashtangi at heart. I believe that when people are flexible enough, they are capable of great things. I’m a bendy so-and-so and as such I’m still working to build stability and strength. This also means I recognise the...
Sky Sirati – inspirational Guru
Sky: This might surprise you but I’m actually a great dancer and in fact I jump on anyone that tries to dance. My human thinks that’s inappropriate but I just don’t see it! I had a tough start to my life and was rescued by the Ardour family. I wouldn’t walk, play or...