Vanessa Ralte

Vanessa is a passionate performer, certified instructor and dance studio owner from Melbourne Australia. She has been involved with performing arts since childhood and has studied everything from dance and drama to gymnastics and yoga.

Vanessa holds an IDTA Associate teaching qualification with Distinction in Freestyle Dance and is also a Ballet Barre and Yoga Alliance certified instructor. She has been studying enthusiastically until coming across a weekly belly dance in London and discovering her passion for it.

She has performed for the likes of Persian pop stars Andy and Kouros at Shepherds Bush Empire and for the London 2012 Olympic torch relay event in Hounslow and the London 2012 Opening and Closing Olympic Ceremonies. She has also danced with some of London’s leading Belly Dance and Bollywood dance companies.

“We were all beginners once.”