Elevate Arts was founded in November 2015 by Lucy Loughlin. Elevate Arts provides children’s dance classes in West London, with a focus on building children’s confidence, self belief, resilience and social skills, while they ELEVATE their dance skills.
Lucy’s training background is predominantly street dance based, and from the age of 16, she has trained and danced with a number of top London dance crews and companies including Lethal Injection and Ricochet Street Dance company.
Lucy has performed at prestigious venues including Wembley arena, the O2, Hammersmith Apollo and Sadler’s Wells and has worked professionally dancing at corporate events and in music videos. She has also choreographed pieces for Move It and Resolution.
Lucy began her teaching journey in 2011 before graduating with a first class honours in Dance Studies from Middlesex University in 2012 and completing her Street dance teacher training qualification in 2016. Lucy remains the only level 4 qualified Street Dance teacher in West London.
An opportunity arose in 2015 to start regular dance classes in the local area (Acton Gardens, W3) so Lucy founded Elevate Arts to enable the children she had taught within school to keep dancing and growing, as well as opening these classes up to other children within the community. Lucy’s dance journey started in Ealing, so to give back to the local community and pass on the knowledge of Authentic Street Dance to keep the culture alive, is a dream come true.
