Alexandra trained at the Bristol School of Dancing and The Royal Ballet School. Her professional career from age 19 to 40 included Dancing Soloist and Principal Roles, The Royal Ballet Company, English National Ballet, Ballet International, Croatian National Ballet, PACT Ballet and NAPAC Dance Theatre.

She then transfered from ballet to fitness professional, yoga teacher and massage therapy. Returning to the theatre aged 65, Alexandra worked with/on Once Upon a Time, The Untold Dance Theatre and set up the Seizing The Day Company, which includes the successful shows Snapshots and Bluffing Your Way In Ballet.

Chris is an actor, voice artist and sound designer with experience in script writing. After getting a taste for performance in school whilst performing drama and theatre studies and performing arts, they went on to study acting with a two year acting and performance course at the Bristol acting academy.

Chris has performed in a wide range of theatre productions, short films, videogames, advertisements and many more, but now with the Seize The Day Company has learned about the history of ballet in helping to assemble and perform in this fantastic show.

Swindon born Colin is an experienced stage character actor who has recently started to establish himself with regular small parts in TV series as diverse as Dr Who, Eastenders, Father Brown and The Cockfields. His professional career has blossomed in later life.

He enjoys playing different roles and portraying stories aspiring to the faint hope that one day someone will dismiss him as “just a bit part character actor.”

Seeing Colin on a night out, Alex immediately exclaimed, “that’s the Uncle Dancing we need for this piece” – Uncle Dancing is just like Dad Dancing but where the dancer assumes erroneously that they are cool.

Dyanne is a British actress who repatriated to the UK from Italy in 2018 after spending 21 years in Rome. Whilst in Italy she directed and performed extensively with The Miracle Players Theatre Company and The English Theatre of Rome as well as acting in and dubbing many films. She also wrote a bilingual sit-com, Tracy & Polpetta for RAI 2.
For the BBC she has performed in roles as diverse as Basil Brush’s scary psychiatrist to working as the presenter Dot on Playdays. She has written over 180 children’s television episodes including Storymakers: Blue Cow & The Bedtime Zone. Her theatre work includes The Gate Theatre, Mercury Theatre and The Bristol Old Vic. She is also one of the few humans to appear in an Aardman Animations stop-motion commercial.

Jan started to self-study dance in London in 1971, aged 21, influenced by a wide range of dance styles. While continuing to take advantage of the diversity, she started to train as a Margaret Morris teacher in 1972 and met Margaret, by then in her eighties – an important early contemporary dance innovator. Jan was noticed and encouraged, which lead to over 50 years of teaching and choreographing internationally. Opportunities arose to dance, produce and choreograph at the Albert Hall on a large oval shaped stage, which was particularly exciting. Margaret spent much of her life in Glasgow with her life partner the famous Scottish colourist JD Ferguson.

Kay is a British actress based in Bristol. She was in Seizing The Day’s previous devised show “Snapshots”. She has had a love of dance since briefly attending ballet classes as a little girl. She has therefore been delighted whenever it has coincided with acting roles such as when she played the tap teacher in Stepping Out. She also played the Narrator in Oriental Passion’s London shows, telling the story of Persian dance, better known, (although a term somewhat frowned upon in those circles), as Belly dance. It too has a fascinating history.
Various roles over the years have included being a founding member of Blue Angel Theatre Company, performing absurdist drama which is, she says, still a mystery to her!

After training at Rose Bruford Drama School, Marie’s professional career began here in Bristol with Avon Touring Theatre Company. She continued to work in theatre, radio, TV, film etc for nearly twenty years.

For a period of time she tried to be sensible and became Head of ICT and then Head of Drama in a secondary school. Disillusioned with the state education system, she broke away and set up her own dance fitness business teaching everyone from the fully fit and able to those at risk of falls, those with dementia and those who have survived a stroke.

Alan started his career as an Electrical Engineer and then went on to work as a Career Counsellor, Marriage Counsellor, Mentor and Volunteer.

He is a reliable ‘Shoulder to cry on’ and is providing general and invaluable support for Seizing The Day Company.