Rosemary Cole has over thirty five years of professional teaching experience and ensures that the delights of dance education and a very impressive array of professional choreographed Strictly Steps dance courses and Advanced Academy workshops are available for aspiring dance students! Strictly Ballroom Dance Academy has an established reputation as the best and most successful performing arts Advanced Academy in West Sussex, preparing dance students for regular professional performances and auditions, while being trained by the area's top professional teacher. Rosemary Cole was trained by her late father Howard Oswald John Davies, from Slough who was a fellow member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. Howard was professionally trained by the famous Miss Eve Tynegate-Smith, (first committee of the ballroom branch of the Imperial Society) where he achieved his professional masters IDMA examination in London in 1947.