The Miss Hammond Award for Achievement

Miss Hammond is a Fellow and Examiner of the ISTD. She began dancing at the age of 7 studying Ballroom, Latin American, National, Greek, Modern Theatre, Tap and Disco. Having trained professionally she has performed worldwide. Retiring from the stage, she taught every age group from Montessori to professional dancers in many schools, colleges and theatre groups throughout the UK. She is qualified in 8 of the ISTD faculties as well as LAMDA and Guildhall. She attained the prestigious Gold Medal for Public Speaking from The Poetry Society. Miss Hammond teaches full time, examines, adjudicates and trains other professionals. She choreographs shows for theatres and enjoys writing scripts for plays and pantomimes. She served 10 years on the Disco/Freestyle RnR Faculty for the ISTD and 14 years on the Club Dance Faculty Committee of the ISTD. 2014 she co-wrote the new Salsa Professional Syllabus for the Club Dance Faculty and the new Street Dance & Commercial Hip Hop syllabus for the Disco/Freestyle RnR Faculty.