About Miss Jarry

Jarry started dancing at the age of 2 years old with Heather Owens at The Glynde Place Dance Studio in West Sussex, where she gained a huge passion for all things dance.
She studied Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz and regularly performed in all the school shows, local pantomimes, wedding fairs and fashion shows. Jarry also won the dance school choreographic competition at the age of 8. Jarry decided that dance was the career she wanted and successfully auditioned for Elmhurst Ballet School – initially on the Musical Theatre and Drama course. While there she performed with the English National Ballet in The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Coliseum.

Excelling at ballet Jarry then auditioned for the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden and was offered a place on the spot and joined White Lodge in Richmond Park later that week at the age of 13.
While there Jarry won the Valerie Adams Prize for Musicality and Performance and the Ursula Moreton Prize for Choreography.

She then moved on to the Royal Ballet School Upper School in Covent Garden and stayed there from ages 16- 19 when she graduated.
While in her graduate year she performed with the Royal Ballet in Sleeping Beauty and La Bayadere and toured with the school to the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC and Palermo, Italy.

Whilst in her graduate year she was offered a job as a member of the Royal New Zealand Ballet where she danced for four years.
While in New Zealand she danced a variety of repertoire leading roles as well as being followed around and narrating the award winning TV show ‘The Secret Lives of Dancers’ Season 1 and 2.

During this time she choreographed ‘Lady Gaga the Ballet’ which went viral on YouTube gaining over a million views and was featured on the 6 o’clock national news.
Jarry also worked as part of the outreach teacher programme in New Zealand – where she fell in love with teaching, travelling around the remote towns teaching ballet to the children in the area, as well as touring with the company to Australia, China, UK, France and Spain.

Leaving New Zealand behind, Jarry moved back to Europe to join the the Norwegian National Ballet, where she stayed for 3 and half years, dancing the works of some of the most famous choreographers including, George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, Cynthia Harvey, William Forsythe, Liam Scarlett and many more.
Jarry then returned to London to pursue other areas of dance – working as a freelance contemporary and commercial dancer. She taught at Pineapple Dance Studio, choreographed and appeared in performances at Sadlers Wells, numerous music videos, Constella Opera and Ballet, English National Opera, a Netflix film and in commercials such as Huawei, Saatchi and Saatchi, River Island and eBay.

Jarry also has a huge love of yoga and found it helpful in looking after her body, preventing and helping manage dance injuries. So she decided to learn more about yoga and travelled to India for 3 months to study Ashtanga Yoga at the Himalaya Yoga Valley in Goa and there she qualified as a yoga instructor.
Alongside performing Jarry accepted a teaching post as part of the faculty at Bath Dance College – where she taught, ballet, jazz contemporary and partnering. She also taught choreography as part of the BTEC course. Jarry prepared students who went on to Rambert, Bird College, Laine Theatre Arts, Italia Conti and LIPA and she has ex students working for Ballet Boyz, in the West End and on major cruise lines.
Jarry also has an acting agent and still acts occasionally – and has a short film and a feature film coming out later this year.
Jarry is now retiring from dancing and has relocated to be with the rest of her family in Coverack, Cornwall – away from the big city of London for a quieter life and to fulfil her dream of setting up her own dance school. Hopefully to inspire a new generation of dancers to reach big or small heights – or to just love and enjoy the freedom of dance.