About us

Charlotte trained in IDTA dance awards at a Ravenshead school of dance and AJ school of Dance and taught IDTA tap whilst training.

She completed A-Levels and went on to receive her degree in ‘Dance performance’ from Birmingham school of dance and acting with Coventry university and then went on to study a Masters degree in Dance Education and science.

During this time, she completed an internship with Phoenix dance and trained heavily within the contemporary sector including with Ace dance, Charlie Morrissey and with Sharon Watson.

Charlotte performed nationally within companies and then went on to complete her PGCE.

During this time, Charlotte went to India to study Ashtanga Yoga and became a beginner teacher. Upon her return, Charlotte continued studying whilst teaching at several dance schools, fitness facilities and leisure centres , leading in subjects including jazz, contemporary, street and team dance.

Charlotte has always had a love for dance and a love for sharing dance with young people. In education, Charlotte was initially employed at the Joseph Whitaker school and taught dance gcse and btec performing arts whilst finishing her PGCE and then went on to become Head of Dance at The Samworth Church Academy; which she has been for over 10 years. In this time, Charlotte has completed her middle leadership national certificate and expanded her teaching repertoire through BGU and NATD. It was in 2018 when Charlotte and Tamara decided to elevate their love for dance and create TALLAH.
Tallah was started with an emphasis and vision to be distinctivley different to a traditional dance school, offering dance photography and film experiences as a core practice and also training in contemporary and urban studies as foundation subjects.

Tamara trained in IDTA gaining teacher status before moving to London and gaining her Dance BA honors. Tamara toured and danced as part of several professional companies and productions in and around Europe.

Tamara has taught at various institutes and has qualifications with BGU, Acrobatic Arts and NATD. Tamara holds QTS and the NPQML certificate years of professional teaching.

Hannah started dancing at the age of 3 and has been dancing for over 20 years. Growing up Hannah trained in various different styles of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary and more. was no stranger to the stage, she spent lots of time working with numerous performance company’s and performed in several musicals and pantomimes.

At the age of 17 Hannah gained places at several professional vocational colleges including Bird College, Laine Theatre Arts and Italia Conti after receiving these offers Hannah accepted a place on the 3 year course at Performers College in Essex.

During her time training Hannah learnt a wide range of styles and developed her technique in all disciplines. At college Hannah has the opportunity to being to develop her craft of choreography within the in-house dance productions and also performed in ‘Our House’ as her end of year musical production. Hannah Graduated Performers College in 2020 with a Level 6 Diploma is Professional Dance.

Whilst training Hannah continued to develop her skills by gaining professional teaching qualifications with the IDTA, where she became an associate of the Freestyle faculty. After finishing college Hannah continued to develop her passion for teaching and continued training for teaching qualifications. Hannah now holds Level 4 Diplomas of Dance teaching in Ballet, Tap, Theatre craft and Modern Jazz, where she gained high distinctions in all subjects.
Hannah has also gained qualifications with Acrobatic arts and is a qualified Acro instructor. She also has a BA in Professional Practice (Performing Arts) and has gained her Qualified Teacher Status.

Hannah is incredibly passionate about teaching and loves to see students learn and grow.

George has a background in a variety of dance styles including freestyle and street. He was a competitive dancer from a young age and danced around the UK. Noticed for his talent at 15, George moved to Liverpool where he studied at LIPA institute of performing arts and obtained a Btec qualification.
George then went on to train at The Addict Dance Academy where he obtained his BA degree qualification and has since worked professionally in national pantomimes and for commercial artists.


From Feb 2025, George is touring with cast members from strictly in a Nationwide tour SPEAKEASY

Teá teaches commercial and fusion at Tallah and has a background in Dance and Theatre. Teá studied a variety of dance styles from a young age and also throughout university in thier HIPHOP team. Teá studied theatre at Northampton and Nottingham university obtaining her degree and has been teaching for 4 years.

Holly has trained at Harlequin school of Dance and Performing Arts since age 3 in genres such as: ballet, tap, modern jazz, theatre craft, acro,commercial and contemporary. She has completed all examinations in each genre under the IDTA up to advanced 2 level, along with completing level 3 diplomas for dance teaching in ballet and tap.
She is currently still working towards gaining more teaching qualifications with the IDTA.

She has been competing since age 5 winning many awards and several bursary finals, however her biggest achievement is winning the IDTA ballet grades award in 2020. Her favourite subjects are commercial, contemporary and acro but has a strong passion for all genres. Holly has been teaching commercial, contemporary and many other styles for a number of years.