Cassandra Seeger RAD RTD PDTD ISTD, Founder and Principal of Firebird Academy of Ballet, delights in sharing her wealth of ballet experience with her students. Over the past two decades, she has had the privilege of imparting her knowledge to foster and engage dancers with her love of the art form. Seeger’s students have trained at vocational schools, continued on to have careers in dance, and performed in major Broadway productions.​

She received her dance training on full scholarship at both the San Francisco Ballet School and Westside Academy of Dance in Los Angeles, USA. During a ten-year career, she enjoyed dancing principle and supporting roles with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Ballet Arizona in Phoenix. As a professional dancer Cassandra had the opportunity to perform many principal and soloist roles of classical, Balanchine, and modern repertoire as well as work with some of today’s leading choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Alonzo King and Ib Andersen. Before moving to London, she taught vocational ballet throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for ten years. At the same time, she acquired her BFA in Illustration from the California College of the Arts, having several solo exhibitions and working as a freelance illustrator. 

Cassandra moved to London with her family from San Francisco in 2010. She acquired her Professional Dancers’ Teaching Diploma in 2015 with the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD). Since then, she has continued to combine her knowledge of the various ballet styles in her teaching practice. Along with the traditional English ballet style and syllabus that the RAD has refined since its inception, her American dance education has afforded her familiarity with the Vaganova, Balanchine, Bournonville and Ceccheti styles as well.  Cassandra provides her students with a broad scope of understanding in the fundamentals of ballet. She takes every opportunity to continue to develop this knowledge for herself. Concurrently, she is studying and teaching the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) French ballet syllabus in addition to that of the RAD.

Passionate to foster both creativity and a joy of movement in each of her students, Cassandra delights in opening the eyes and hearts of children to a love of ballet. She eagerly anticipates contributing to the growth of the next generation of young dancers.