Clara Hale, principal of Pointe School of Dance, in the main studio

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Principal & founder

Clara Hale

Danced with English National Ballet, now teaches Lewes to point its toes.

Clara trained at the Royal Ballet School and danced with English National Ballet for nine years. She opened Pointe in 2009 in the old chapel hall on Western Road, with one studio and eleven pupils. She still teaches every Senior Ballet class and plays the piano for Tiny Toes when Mia lets her.

Teaches

Senior Ballet, Junior Ballet, Adult Ballet

Qualifications

RAD Registered Teacher (RTS) · Former ENB First Artist · DBS checked · Paediatric First Aid

Teaching for

17 years

  • Ballet shoes lined up under a wooden bench
  • Two dancers in black tap shoes mid-step
  • Pointe shoes hanging by their ribbons on a hook
  • Teenage dancers laughing together in the studio
  • A little girl in a pink tutu twirling, seen from behind
  • A dancer’s hands reaching up in window light
  • Girls in tutus helping each other with hair buns in front of a lit mirror
  • Children in a tap class mid-routine

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