Marion Lane

Marion Lane and Roger Horne provide a unique combination of Teacher Training and business development consultancy to professional dance students, and established dance teachers looking to build successful business careers as dance teachers.

Marion Lane

Founder and Centre Principal

Marion Lane is a Fellow of each of the Dancesport Faculties of the ISTD and an Examiner to the Society. She frequently lectures to teachers at congresses and regularly provides pupils for training courses and presentations of the graded syllabi.

It is Marion’s particular love of training professionals that has inspired her, with several of her students having been awarded the prestigious Phyllis Haylor Scholarship by the ISTD. Her overall aims are to equip students embarking on a teaching career with the best possible skills and to nurture their progress.

Marion sees continued professional development as the cornerstone of good teaching, with sound standards of performance and theoretical knowledge together with knowledge and understanding of teaching and learning skills, at its foundation.

Marion opened the Lane School of Dancing in 1986. Over time it has evolved into a network of area centres throughout Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Suffolk providing a high standard of Dancesport training to pupils of all abilities. She is now the Director of the Lane Dance Centres and Dancesport tutor to the Athens Dance Centre; Spirit of Dance, Greece.

In 2001, Marion was appointed to the Latin American Faculty Committee of the ISTD. During her time on the committee, she has been fully involved in the research and development of the government accredited General and Vocational Grade examinations and the FDI and CDE professional qualifications.