Fleur Hoefkens-Lee
Fleur’s journey in dance started at the age of 11 and has been a part of her life and soul ever since. Fleur has been fortunate enough to train with some of the best choreographers, artists and teachers in contemporary dance through workshops/intensives and 1:1 sessions, continuing to feed her passion for dance.
Some of these include Hofesh Shechter, Alleyne Dance Company, Leila Mc Millan - Flying Low, Paul Claydon - DV8, Ben McEwan and Natalia Iwaniec - Gaga.
Fleur’s training started in Birmingham with Bodybeat Dance. After years of training in commercial styles, she found Contemporary and realised this was her direction. She went on to get a 1st degree in Dance at Bath Spa University and an Artswork Bursary Award. Here she studied technique, choreography and performance techniques as well as dance for film.
Fleur has performed for various artists and at various venues and festivals such as, The London Palladium, The Prince of Wales Theatre, The Edge, Tacci-Morris Arts Centre, Glastonbury Festival, Womad, Cafe de Paris for Jamie Oliver, Mr. Scruff as well as touring to Macau in China.
She is Dance Links Trained, was the Associate Artist for The Egg Theatre for a year and in 2019 was awarded the Victoria Worsfold Griffiths Bursary for Laban Trinity’s Summer School.
She is a dedicated Dance Artist, who is passionate about dance performance, engagement and education. Serving as a role model within the BANES area through extensive participation in dance performance, project management, producing and teaching.
With 14 years experience working within schools, theatres, community groups, higher education, youth dance companies and professional dance companies you can be rest assured your child will thrive under her tutoring.
Fleur has a big heart, is always smiling and sees the potential in all her students. Doing whatever she can to make sure they get the best opportunities and experiences whilst having a lot of fun.
She is devoted to creating a lively, exciting and progressive contemporary dance scene in Bath through her company BUDC.
You can get in touch with Fleur at: beudancebath@gmail.com
Lilia Blood
Lilia fell in love with dancing as a teenager. Growing up she attended Pointework’s School of Ballet, achieving a distinction in grades 5 to Intermediate RAD syllabus. She then went on to study and achieve a first in Contemporary dance at Bath Spa University, where she had lots of exciting opportunities to work with local artists and on community projects, such as with Emily Brown Dance, Neon Dance, Impermanence Dance and Insight Ensemble.
After University Lilia spent some time on an internship with Rise Youth Dance learning to assist, mentor and work with young people. She also choreographed and performed her own work in local venues in Bath and Bristol, falling in love with creativity and the playfulness of movement. In 2019 she was successful in funding from Seed Bursary and as well as attending Pavilion Dance Young Choreographers.
2020 saw the start of her journey into the yoga and wellness industry, qualifying with her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Lilia started teaching at Cardiff University, in Local Gyms and Studios, as well as Parkside Care Home, sharing both group and 1:1 sessions. She offers an interesting mix of both disciplines and is enthusiastic about the potential our bodies have and about students moving with joy and purpose.