Dance has been part of my life since early childhood, shaping how I move, think, and teach. What I offer now is work grounded in experience, cultural understanding, and care, focused on depth, clarity, and meaningful connection ''
Short Bio for Lindy Hop Events:
Trisha is a UK based artist, educator, and creative director with decades of experience teaching and working internationally. She brings a deeply personal, culturally informed approach to dance, rooted in Black traditions, musicality, and lived social history. Her work centres on authenticity, connection, and immersion. Inviting dancers to move beyond patterns and sequences and into meaning. Trisha explores the shared roots of African American vernacular dances, encouraging students to understand where movement comes from, how it feels, and why it matters.
Known for her engaging teaching style, Trisha creates spaces that are both energetic and joyful. Her background in music and formal training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and tap gives her teaching strong depth and understanding, especially in rhythm, helping students develop confidence, musicality, and their own expressive voice.
Trisha is driven by a passion for dances from the Black diaspora as living cultural practices, honouring their origins and empowering dancers to move with intention, respect, and authenticity.
Short Bio for Blues Events:
Trisha is a UK based artist, educator, and creative director with decades of experience teaching and working internationally. Her work is rooted in Afropean cultural traditions and the wider Black diaspora, shaped by musicality, feeling, and lived social history. She has been part of the British Blues dance community for over 30 years, with deep, sustained engagement in spaces such as Shubin’s, the UK’s closest equivalent to the jook and juke joint culture of the US, where Blues dance has long been practised as a social, embodied, and communal form.
Her practice centres on authenticity, connection, and immersion. Trisha invites dancers to move beyond steps and structures into sensation, exploring weight, timing, texture, and emotional truth. Through blues music and related African American vernacular dances, she encourages students to understand where movement comes from, how it lives in the body, and why it carries meaning.
Known for her warm, grounded teaching style, Trisha creates expressive, human, and welcoming spaces. With a strong background in music and formal training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and tap, rhythm and groove are at the heart of her teaching, helping dancers develop confidence, musical sensitivity, and an authentic personal voice rooted in Blues culture.
Longer Bio
Trisha is a UK based artist, educator, and creative director with decades of experience teaching and working internationally. She brings a deeply personal, culturally informed approach to dance, grounded in Black traditions, musicality, and lived social history. She has taught since the late 1990s and has been active internationally for over two decades. Her work reflects a long-standing commitment to cultural integrity, artistic depth, and meaningful learning experiences.
Her practice centres on authenticity, connection, and immersion. Trisha invites dancers to move beyond patterns and sequences into meaning, encouraging an embodied understanding of where movement comes from, how it feels, and why it matters. Drawing on the shared roots of African American vernacular dances, she supports dancers in engaging with rhythm, groove, individuality, and community as integral elements of the dance, rather than as additions to it.
Known for her engaging and inclusive teaching style, Trisha creates spaces that are both energetic and joyful, yet thoughtful and intentional. Her classes balance clarity with creativity, supporting students while encouraging them to explore their own expressive voice. She has a particular strength in communicating complex ideas in accessible ways, helping dancers build confidence, musical awareness, and a deeper relationship with movement.
Trisha’s work is underpinned by a strong musical foundation and extensive movement training. With a background in music and formal training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and tap, rhythm lies at the heart of her teaching. This enables students to develop a nuanced understanding of timing, improvisation, and embodied musicality, supporting dance that feels grounded, responsive, and alive.
Alongside teaching, Trisha works as a creative director, choreographer, and performer, with many years of experience shaping performances, learning environments, and artistic projects. Her international work spans the UK and Europe, where she continues to teach, perform, and collaborate with diverse communities and organisations.
Trisha is a UK based artist, educator, and creative director with decades of experience teaching and working internationally. She brings a deeply personal, culturally informed approach to dance, rooted in Black traditions, musicality, and lived social history. Her work centres on authenticity, connection, and immersion. Inviting dancers to move beyond patterns and sequences and into meaning. Trisha explores the shared roots of African American vernacular dances, encouraging students to understand where movement comes from, how it feels, and why it matters.
Known for her engaging teaching style, Trisha creates spaces that are both energetic and joyful. Her background in music and formal training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and tap gives her teaching strong depth and understanding, especially in rhythm, helping students develop confidence, musicality, and their own expressive voice.
Trisha is driven by a passion for dances from the Black diaspora as living cultural practices, honouring their origins and empowering dancers to move with intention, respect, and authenticity.
Short Bio for Blues Events:
Trisha is a UK based artist, educator, and creative director with decades of experience teaching and working internationally. Her work is rooted in Afropean cultural traditions and the wider Black diaspora, shaped by musicality, feeling, and lived social history. She has been part of the British Blues dance community for over 30 years, with deep, sustained engagement in spaces such as Shubin’s, the UK’s closest equivalent to the jook and juke joint culture of the US, where Blues dance has long been practised as a social, embodied, and communal form.
Her practice centres on authenticity, connection, and immersion. Trisha invites dancers to move beyond steps and structures into sensation, exploring weight, timing, texture, and emotional truth. Through blues music and related African American vernacular dances, she encourages students to understand where movement comes from, how it lives in the body, and why it carries meaning.
Known for her warm, grounded teaching style, Trisha creates expressive, human, and welcoming spaces. With a strong background in music and formal training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and tap, rhythm and groove are at the heart of her teaching, helping dancers develop confidence, musical sensitivity, and an authentic personal voice rooted in Blues culture.
Longer Bio
Trisha is a UK based artist, educator, and creative director with decades of experience teaching and working internationally. She brings a deeply personal, culturally informed approach to dance, grounded in Black traditions, musicality, and lived social history. She has taught since the late 1990s and has been active internationally for over two decades. Her work reflects a long-standing commitment to cultural integrity, artistic depth, and meaningful learning experiences.
Her practice centres on authenticity, connection, and immersion. Trisha invites dancers to move beyond patterns and sequences into meaning, encouraging an embodied understanding of where movement comes from, how it feels, and why it matters. Drawing on the shared roots of African American vernacular dances, she supports dancers in engaging with rhythm, groove, individuality, and community as integral elements of the dance, rather than as additions to it.
Known for her engaging and inclusive teaching style, Trisha creates spaces that are both energetic and joyful, yet thoughtful and intentional. Her classes balance clarity with creativity, supporting students while encouraging them to explore their own expressive voice. She has a particular strength in communicating complex ideas in accessible ways, helping dancers build confidence, musical awareness, and a deeper relationship with movement.
Trisha’s work is underpinned by a strong musical foundation and extensive movement training. With a background in music and formal training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and tap, rhythm lies at the heart of her teaching. This enables students to develop a nuanced understanding of timing, improvisation, and embodied musicality, supporting dance that feels grounded, responsive, and alive.
Alongside teaching, Trisha works as a creative director, choreographer, and performer, with many years of experience shaping performances, learning environments, and artistic projects. Her international work spans the UK and Europe, where she continues to teach, perform, and collaborate with diverse communities and organisations.