Isabella Taylor-Whitehead of Tonge Moor may only be 15 but she already performs more than 10 different dance styles. She said: “I do ballet, tap, jazz, street dance, contemporary and others. “I do circus and aerial arts.
And I have recently trained in fire sticks.” The daughter of Julie Taylor, director of Taylor’s Theatre Academy in Tonge Moor, dancing is in her blood. She said: “I started when I was five.
About two years later, my mother and aunt [ Stacy Taylor] opened Taylor’s Theatre Academy .” She said: “From then on, I was dancing seven days a week and doing shows all year round. “Dancing is like home to me.
Any time I feel down, I do it. I don’t know what I’d do without it.” Isabella Taylor-Whitehead performing (Image: Isabella Taylor-Whitehead) She entered the college her mother and aunt founded, Taylor’s Theatre College, studying a BTEC level 3 in performing arts.
She said: “I went for a year, but our course got cancelled by its providers.” "Isabella found herself with “nowhere to go for college or dance training”. Left without options other than homeschooling, she took a chance on a dream.
She applied to Phil Winston's Theatreworks, a prestigious dance school in Blackpool. And was accepted. She said: “It felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
I was absolutely over the moon. “I’d finally found a place to go.” Isabella performing aerial arts (Image: Isabella Taylor-Whitehead) Except the school’s three-year musi.