1A PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

My name is Jan Mayer, I am 5ft 7 with dark green eyes and long copper brown hair. I have recently just made my professional debut into the world of work. In 2007 I received a scholarship for the Hammond School Chester and graduated in July 2010 receiving a level 6 National diploma in professional Dance validated by Trinity London. I am currently working for Jean Ann Ryan aboard a six star ship, The Silver cloud also promoting my diploma into a degree by studying The BA Honours course in Professional practice

 I discovered many qualities as I trained at the Hammond, already entering very competitive from my disco competitions and becoming an extremely hard working and committed person. Extra written work alongside the three year course made me very organised and independent allowing me to schedule and work around any free time I had. Another perfect example of this is undertaking my degree course onboard the ship, juggling and organising my time around my job. I entered my training with perhaps a lot less experience than others on certain techniques and styles, however this made me eager on wanting to learn more and perfect everything I was taught. Working on a ship has also made me a lot more sociable and outgoing as a lot of the duties include socialising with guests, this generally means being polite and showing a confident mannerism about you as you walk around the ship.

Major Highlights for me so far would be some of the many workshops we took part in at the Hammond, these included dancers from cats and ballerina Viviane Durante, Master Irek Moukhamedov.Working with disabled children in workshops and classes. Modelling and performing on fashion shows and photo shoots, and of course the most rewarding and satisfying part of my job at the moment, seeing the world, travelling, meeting all nationalities of people and now performing and developing as a professional artist.

Working alongside Eric Carpenter, Jane Elliot, David Needham and many others I have developed a broad spectrum of skills, these include, ballet, pointe commercial jazz, fosse, luigi , Contempory Cunningham and graham. I also trained and studied Spanish, modern, street, tap, basic acrobatics and double work.

I have always been involved with performances all my life, Major Productions have included a touring company in my final year where we performed at numerous places in the United Kingdom and also in Germany directed by Alison Hughes. Yearly productions at the Hammond directed by Sarah Durante and my first paid role working as a dancer for Jean Ann Ryan and performing on Silver seas six star cruises.

Reference available from head of dance, The Hammond Mrs Sarah Durrante (01244305353).