Louise Hudson - Director of Chelsea Ballet
Due to a knee injury, which was later found to be a back problem, Louise left LSC after two years and decided not to pursue dance as a career. For a number of years she worked as front of house staff at the London Coliseum. After a crash course in office administration she joined the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers, shortly to become the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and worked as a conference organiser for 12 years. During this time Louise took class with her mother and danced with Chelsea Ballet, gradually taking more responsibility with the administration of the group.
Louise choreographed her first ballet, Dance in the Night, at the age of seven and has regularly choreographed ballets since, including Rumplestiltskin set to specially commissioned music by St Petersburg composer, Natalia Rusu-Kozulina.
Louise has danced a variety of roles and lists her favourites as the title role in Giselle, The Snow Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker, Swanhilda and Dawn from Coppélia, Pas de Trois and Odile from Swan Lake and The Lilac Fairy from The Sleeping Beauty.
Louise has been a regular guest teacher at the Harlow Ballet Association and holds the position of Vice President.
Louise is now on a career break from PricewaterhouseCoopers and has moved to Muscat, Oman to join her husband, Barry, who is the head of stage and operations at the Royal Opera House in Muscat. Despite being many miles away, Louise will still head up Chelsea Ballet returning on a regular basis to perform with the group. Louise may even try to start up a similar group in Muscat. At present Louise offers ballet lessons in Oman and London.
