The Pauline Cook School of Dancing including CATS

Have Fun. Make Friends. Improve Confidence

Gain Posture, Poise and Fitness. Gain Qualifications and Theatre Skills.

The Pauline Cook School of Dancing offers the best training available by highly qualified instructors to help individuals achieve their personal goals.

We provide a full range of dance subjects for pupils from 3years to professional standards in safe and secure environments. The main school is based in a dueal studio building in Consett, with satellite schools in Stanley and Lanchester.

The school was founded in 1984 and is run by Mrs Pauline Cooper (neCook) is a fully qualified Dance Teacher of the I.D.T.A., the Royal Academy of Dance and the Imperial Soc. of Teachers of Dancing.

Pupils have appeared in Professional and Amateur productions throughout the North East of England, as well as appearing many, many times at our local theatre in Consett. Pupils have also appeared at the Tyne Theatre Newcastle, Sunderland Emprie Theatre, the Gala Theatre in Durham and venues in London, Manchester, Blackpool and Southport while representing the school. Pauline is passionate about passing on her skills, as well as making dance enjoyable for all. She has trained many staudents to very high standards who in turn have won many major awards, some of whom have progressed to be professional performers and teachers in their own right.