We bring together a unique fusion of the arts and fitness. Unlimited On Demand and Live singing classes, dance fitness, mind & body sessions, and strength & stretch Pilates all under one membership package.
The danceSing experience centres around the positive mental and physical wellbeing of our people. Fun, fitness, and friendship, at your pace.
Whether you’re looking to learn something new, maintain or develop your fitness, or simply connect and make new friends, the danceSing team are there to advise, motivate and inspire. danceSing is the inclusive, intergenerational, feel-good wellbeing experience like no other.
We are the Choir that keeps you Fit!
Founder, Director and Dance Trainer
Founder, Director and Dance Trainer
Natalie trained as a professional ballet dancer at the English National Ballet School and has performed with Scottish Ballet and Scottish Dance Theatre. She is a qualified exercise trainer these include exercise for the older person, chair fitness, dance fitness, nutrition, weight management, exercise counselling and stress and anxiety management.
Natalie has created danceSing for everyone and is delighted to bring danceSing into the Care Community. Natalie has been working specifically with older adults since the 1990’s and has presented for The Exercise Association Research into Ageing Conference. danceSing presented and was identified as a best practice at The Active & Independent Living Conference 2018.
Natalie is passionate about improving people’s overall wellbeing through movement, singing and music. Her exuberance and love of dance has brought joy to many people of all ages and abilities.
danceSing was created by Natalie Garry, a former professional ballet dancer with over 30 years of experience within the health, wellbeing, and fitness industry. Recognising the benefits of singing and dancing to stay fit, healthy, and happy, danceSing was born. Setting out to do things differently, Natalie and her team of passionate professionals are committed to making a positive difference to people’s lives through their shared vision of bringing wellness to the nation. Let danceSing lift your mood and help you to feel less stressed, less anxious, and more confident!
With a wealth of knowledge and combining years of experience, passion, energy, and enthusiasm, meet the creative team bringing wellness to the nation.
Operational Director
Claire is an experienced project manager and business intelligence analyst with extensive experience across a wide range of business planning environments and sectors, including: Private; Local Government; Civil Service; Housing; and Higher Education. Claire has worked with some of the leading organisations in the UK (and beyond) including Procter and Gamble and Durham University.
Claire has been a consultant for danceSing since February 2018 before formally joining the company in April 2019. Claire is primarily responsible for overseeing business development and operational growth of the company, its resources and assets. Claire is passionate about creating a five-star experience and delivering excellent customer service.
Claire’s mission is to take danceSing from strength to strength!
Musical Director and Music Trainer
Lindsay Ashworth Fraser trained as a musician at University of Strathclyde and in Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and has worked as a freelance musician, actor, singer and voiceover artist for over 15 years.
Throughout her varied career, Lindsay has performed in plays, musicals and pantomimes throughout the UK and her strong choral tradition also led to many years' work as a session singer in London. Lindsay has sung for some of the world’s leading film composers at Abbey Road, Air Lyndhurst and Angel Studios. If you hear a choir on a Dreamworks animation, chances are Lindsay’s voice is in there somewhere!
Since moving back to Glasgow and having her son, Lindsay has grown her own business onlineMD, which provides musical support to some of the UK’s top theatre performers and launched vintage vocal trio The St. Andrews’ Sisters.
Lindsay joined danceSing in 2016 as a Music Leader and was promoted to Musical Director in 2019. Lindsay loves bringing her passion for harmony singing to danceSing and fosters a fun, engaging and relaxed environment in her singing sessions. Lindsay is excited to be moving to online teaching as we find ourselves in new territory and looks forward to welcoming you to the danceSing On Demand community.
Composer and Studio Music Leader
Karen is a piano player, arranger and composer who has spent the majority of her career encouraging music participation in people’s lives. Karen was head of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra education department and eventually returned to her first love as a musician in dance, returning to Scottish Ballet.
A the Scottish Ballet Karen works with the dancers, and also teaches piano improvisation at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for Piano in Dance Masters course.
Senior Administrator
Karen is an actress and voiceover artist who combines her performing career with her role as Senior Administrator with danceSing.
Karen worked in the private sector for 15 years as a Research & Development Manager has extensive experience as an administrator and customer services provider. She loves nothing more than getting to know clients and making sure that any time they need help, support or information, it’s delivered in the fastest, friendliest way possible.
As a performer, she’s best known as Officer Karen in the BAFTA winning mockumentary Scot Squad. She has also appeared in over 40 radio plays on BBC Radio 4 and is part of the ensemble cast in Audible’s recent award winning adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.
Music Leader
Karol has worked in music education for the past twenty-five years. Karol graduated with a BMus from Queen’s University Belfast and after a PGCE she took a post-graduate course in piano accompaniment at RSAMD. Karol has worked in Scottish secondary schools as a Head of Curricular Music and Director of Music and pursued her own studies of education management with an MSc at Edinburgh University.
Karol studied piano with Geoffrey Pratley (RAM) and has worked as an accompanist, director of musical theatre productions and as a choral leader. Karol is passionate about communicating her love of music to both children and adults. Karol currently teaches part-time at Dollar Academy and works as a Scottish Qualifications Authority examiner.
Mind & Body Leader
Lauren trained at the world-renowned Royal Ballet School London and has performed professionally with The Royal Ballet Company at The Royal Opera House in a broad repertoire of productions including; Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, The Rite of Spring; and Swan lake. After graduation, Lauren joined acclaimed Scottish Ballet for the UK tour of award-winning artistic director Ashley Page’s Sleeping Beauty.
Since hanging up her pointe shoes, Lauren has embarked on a passionate new movement journey, teaching Barre, Pilates and Yoga and whose clients include a number of high-profile professional dancers, footballers, Olympic swimmers and rowers.
Lauren supports and motivates her people to improve their strength, flexibility, as well as enhance their self-confidence. Lauren believes movement is medicine, deepening the connection and helping you to fall a little more in love with yourself.
Lauren’s sessions focus on discovering a balanced and aligned body that feels energised and moves with ease. Lauren’s Barre sessions are well known for being deceptively delicious and hugely satisfying.
Lauren is delighted to be a part of the danceSing team and to be working alongside Natalie Garry (Lauren’s first ballet teacher!) whom has been instrumental in Lauren’s journey to become a ballet dancer.
Music Leader
Alan is a musical director and composer based in Edinburgh. Alan trained at the RSAMD (now the Conservatoire) and has worked or performed in almost every theatre in Scotland.
Alan composes music for theatre and television, and has a large catalogue of music for children, including for his website and Youtube channel “Choonbaboon”.
Though classically trained, Alan is pop obsessed, with an astonishing knowledge of cheesy 70’s and 80’s music!
Music Leader
Tenor Alan Beck studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He later won the entrance scholarship to the Postgraduate Opera Course at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1995 Alan won the British Wagner Society Singing Competition at Covent Garden and was subsequently awarded the society's Bayreuth Bursary. Later that year, he also won the Wolfgang Wagner Singing Competition in London in front of Dr Wagner and Dame Gwyneth Jones.
He made his operatic début in 1995 for Opera Ireland and was a principal tenor with the State Opera, Stuttgart from 1996 to 2002, singing many roles in the German and central European repertoire. Alan has also sung principal tenor roles for Lyric Opera Dublin and the Carl Rosa Opera and in 2002 he made his début as Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walküre at the London Coliseum for English National Opera. Most recently he has been busy singing with Welsh National Opera as Bacchus in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and appearing as Eisenstein in Haddo House Opera's 60th anniversary production of Die Fledermaus.
Alan has sung all over the world and is much in demand on the Burns circuit where he has sung in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Wellington, Christchurch, Aukland, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Tampa, Houston, Vancouver, Winnepeg, Toronto, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Asturias, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Vilnius, Brussels, Belfast, London and all over Scotland.
As a Music educator Alan has directed the choir of the Junior RNCM, received Creative Scotland commissions for three children's musicals - Tall Ships' Tales, Let The Games Begin and Great Scots - all of which were taught as Music units in many different Primary schools and written the theme song for Education Scotland's singing strategy Singing To Learn: Learning To Sing.
He lives in Greenock with his wife Polly and their two sons.
Music Leader
Liverpool-born, Polly lives in Greenock. She studied at the RSAMD, and later won the entrance scholarship to the postgraduate Opera Course at the RNCM where she achieved her MMus and won many prizes and awards including the Peter Moores Foundation Award, the Countess of Munster Prize and the D’Oyle Carte Scholarship.
Polly later returned to Scotland to work with Scottish Opera. As a soloist Polly has sung with several UK orchestras, and appeared in many festivals throughout the country, including the 40th anniversary Aldeburgh Festival.
Her operatic roles include many of the great Wagnerian heroines such as Sieglinde and Brangäne. More recently she has sung with Lyric Opera Dublin and for the Royal Opening of the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock.
Polly has many years teaching experience. She taught Singing, as well as Performance classes, at the Junior RNCM and at Scottish Opera Education Department. Currently she enjoys her role as a Vocal Instructor for Inverclyde Music Service, teaching Voice and Performance Skills. She is also Vocal Coach for Inverclyde Senior Choir, and has contributed on the committee of the Inverclyde Festival.
Polly also teaches singing for the University of Glasgow, the Junior Conservatoire of the RCS, the National Youth Choir of Scotland and is the Vocal coach for the RSNO Chorus.
Music Leader
Mairi trained as a music teacher, and since graduating in 1994, her career has included work as a teacher, musical director, arranger, accompanist and composer. She currently teaches part time in a Secondary school, alongside other freelance commitments.
Credits as a musical director range from ‘Sweeney Todd’ to ‘Summer Holiday’, working with both adult and youth theatre companies. Mairi also composed the music for the plays ‘Mother of all the Peoples’ and ‘Five Pound and Twa Bairns’ which were performed in Aberdeen, Dundee Rep, the Byre and the Mitchell Theatre with Hame Productions.
Dance Leader
Nicola began her professional training at the Scottish ballet school, and later went on to train in musical theatre for 3 years at Bird college of performing arts.
Nicola had her first taste of performing professionally at the age of 11 in the musical Annie,
After leaving college Nicola performed in numerous pantos before getting her first big break in Andrew Lloyd Webbers original cast of Sunset blvd, at the Adelphi Theatre. She went on to appear in numerous west end show’s including: Oliver( London Palladium); Martin Guerre (Prince Edward theatre); Damn Yankees (Adelphi Theatre); Maddie (Lyric Theatre); DR Dolittle (Apollo Hammersmith); Whittington (saddlers wells); My Fair Lady( Drury lane) Beautiful and Damned (lyric Theatre); Mary Poppins ( Prince Edward); Nicola also went on tour with the musical Grease playing the role of Frenchy, and My Fair Lady where she was Dance captain.
Other credits include: South Pacific (National Theatre) and Twelfth night, Cymboline, and H.M.S Pinafore (regents park open air theatre) Beauty and the Beast (R.S.C Stratford).
Nicola can be seen in the film version of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream coat and has recorded many voice overs for Scottish T.V and Radio.
Over the past few years Nicola has devoted her time to Teaching, teaching in Nursery’s and schools, she has her A.I.S.T.D in Ballet and Modern, and has a cache level 1 qualification in Child development.
Music Leader
Anne graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a music education degree in 2007, studying voice with Jean Webster. Since then she has worked in secondary schools, as an accompanist, as a piano tutor for the University of Aberdeen, as a musicianship teacher and vocal tutor for NYCoS, as a freelance teacher and as a class teacher for Rhythm Time.
Anne has been involved with various theatre groups in Aberdeen as a musical director, rehearsal pianist and pit musician. She has appeared on stage in principal and ensemble roles. She sings with Con Anima chamber choir and has also worked with them as a conductor. She has recently started a school choir at her children's primary school.
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