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About Doreen Bird
- Doreen Bird MA FISTD ARAD (27 January 1928 – 4 March 2004) was a British dance teacher and founder of the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, Kent (now Southeast London).
- She was a fellow, examiner, lecturer, committee and council member of the ISTD, life member of the RAD, and Honorary MA.
- Prior to her death from Leukaemia in 2004, she had been studying towards a Ph.D.
- As well as being a respected dance figure in the United Kingdom, Bird also travelled the World as a lecturer and adjudicator specialising in dance and musical theatre.
- The college which Bird founded is now recognised Internationally as a centre of excellence for dance and performing arts, with its students working worldwide in high-profile areas of the performing industry including West End and Broadway theatre.
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