 Theresa Lowrie-Collymore was born and raised in the United Kingdom of English and St. Lucian parentage, where she began building her dance world at the of age 5. She migrated with her family to St. Lucia in 1976 as a vocational student in Classical Ballet, and with sincere parental encouragement her teaching experience began in 1979.
From 1980 and every year subsequently, she has entered students for the Royal Academy of Dance Classical Ballet examinations and has enjoyed a one hundred percent pass rate (100%), a standard she still maintains to date, and which underlines her skills as an accomplished teacher. Presently, she single-handedly teaches 160 students, from ages 3 ½ to 27 years, at the three branches of the St. Lucia School Of Ballet & Modern Dance.
Through the years, she has continued to acquire additional teaching qualifications in Classical Ballet, through the Royal Academy of Dance, and in Modern Dance, through the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (London), and is a Registered Teacher at both institutions.
She has also shown great talent as a choreographer. In addition to simple dance recitals, she has choreographed major theatrical productions, such as “The Greatest Story Ever Told” (1992), “He Came, He Saw, He Conquered” 1995, and “Theee Blood” in the year 2000, which featured the entire school in the cast, all which received excellent reviews and great acclaim in Saint Lucia.
Her achievement and contributions to dance and to the arts in Saint Lucia were finally recognized and in 2003 when she received The Saint Lucia Medal of merit (SLMM), during that year’s independence celebrations.
Mrs. Lowrie-Collymore presently lives in the north of the island with her husband and two sons. Now in her 30th year of teaching she continues the pursuit of fulfilling of her Father’s purpose for her life and His purpose for His world of Dance.
Her Staff
Lisa Herbert
 Lisa Herbert was born in Somerset England on September 4th 1985. She began taking dance classes at the tender age of three (3) from the Jenny Taylor School of Dancing. She continued dancing at the school until the age of 19 when she achieved high grades in Advanced Tap, Modern Dance and Foundation Ballet.
She obtained her high school education at the King Alfred School in Somerset England from 1997 to 2004 where she earned in 2002 GCSEs in English Literature, Drama, Music, French and Graphic Design among other subjects. She pursued Advance Level subjects as well, in 2004 in Theater Studies, Mathematics, Music and Literature.
After receiving her A Level subjects in 2004, she went on to attend the Janet Marshall Dance Studio. There she received ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance) certificates in Dance Education in Tap Dance and Modern Theatre Dance Education and a Foundation in Dance Instruction in Imperial Ballet. After which she obtained a Certificate of Ballet Teaching Studies from the Royal Academy of Dance, Battersea London. She has choreographed many dance recitals, festivals and skits.
 Drenia Frederick
An unflinching theatre activist, Drenia Frederick is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (Mona) and the Edna Manley School of the Performing Arts (Jamaica, 2002).
Recently honoured as one of her country’s outstanding young women, Drenia is a powerful director of considerable experience in stage and film and is recognized for her unique style - a combination of spectacle and symbolism.
A playwright and an actor involved in the arts in St. Lucia for over 15 years, her directing credits include several major works including Pappyshow Park(1998), Desiree(1999), Revelations (2000), Jesus of Conway (2002), Sarafina (2003), Anthem (2004) and Tinday(2006),and Esperance: Hope of an Island, commissioned in 2009 to mark the 30th Anniversary of her country’s Independence.
As a freshman at UWI, her version of Tallawah staged at the 1999 annual Performing Arts Festival, won awards for Best Director and Best Production from the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts.
In 2002 Drenia directed the short film By Choice By Chance produced by the Aids Action Foundation and Right Angle Imaging. Her work later took her to Boston (2004) directing the Iyanola Experiencea multi-media immersion project for the Port Castries Animation Centre. She later wrote and directed the musical Masquerade Masterand Koudmen a short film for children.
Drenia Frederick was the first Artistic Director of the St. Lucia Arts Festival Company for 3 years during which time she played a major role in shaping the annual Kalalu World Music Festival as well as Word Alive a performance poetry event now into its 6th edition.
As a teacher of Drama, English Language and Literature, she is immersed in the business of training and developing young minds and believes that “young persons exposed to the arts grow into a more confident and productive adulthood”, this belief lead her to create a musical adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s Thumbelina for the Kiddies Head Start Program. As well as the director of this year’s production of the “Coloured Museum” by George C Wolfe, recent on- screen work with children includes collaborations with Kiddicrew, a children’s creative workshop.
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