Adam Kent
Studio Manager · Ballroom & Latin Instructor
- Top 60 couples in the world
- Blackpool Dance Festival
- Ballroom
- Latin
- Pro-Am coaching
& teaching
Killick Royal
Cruises
Melbourne-born, ranked among the top 60 couples in the world during his competitive career, and a three-time Top Teacher at the Killick Royal Championships. Adam manages the SoHo studio and teaches ballroom and Latin to adults at every level.
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Competitive career — Melbourne to Blackpool
Adam is originally from Melbourne, Australia and has been dancing for over 35 years. He began as a very young student of Wenden Dance Studio under the renowned Australian coach Don Mc Robert JP, FISTD (London), FFATD (Australia). What started as social dancing turned competitive when Adam paired with his sister Patricia. They won first in the Juvenile section, then the Junior, and eventually the adult amateur section, working their way through the competitive system and winning many events conducted by various organizations.
The pair reached the highest level in Australia, winning the country’s most prestigious event — The Federal Association Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Commemorative 10 Dance Championship Trophy, contested as part of the South Pacific Championship. Following that success they travelled to Asia on several occasions, taking the Bangkok and Taipei International Championships.
Having won at the highest level in Australia, Adam and his partner moved to London to train and compete with some of the top coaches and dancers in the world. They competed at a world-class standard across England and Europe, eventually reaching the world-famous Blackpool Dance Festival — the most prestigious competition on the Latin and ballroom circuit. During their time in England the couple were ranked among the top 60 couples in the world.
Stage, screen and television
After a long and successful competitive career Adam moved into live performance, theatre and television. He appeared in the television series True Blood and co-choreographed the musical film Rent, working alongside Idina Menzel. Theatre highlights include the Joyful Noise tour with Clay Aiken, the American Idol runner-up of 2003, followed by the resident production of Simply Ballroom at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas and a long, successful American tour of the same show, which was joined by the legendary Debbie Reynolds.
In 2010 Adam was thrilled to be asked to join the original television cast of Dance Star Asia, Singapore’s version of Dancing with the Stars. His celebrity partner was Lina Teoh, a former Miss Malaysia, and the pair placed second overall. Adam was also consistently employed by Crystal Cruises, the world’s only six-star cruise line. For over ten years he and his partner were invited aboard as guest entertainers and dance instructors, performing their own 45-minute show and teaching private and group lessons on board — one of the ships’ most popular and most requested acts.
Teaching and coaching
Before joining Dance With Me, Adam taught in London at Karen Hardy Dance Studios, the city’s only private members’ dance studio, and competed in pro-am competitions all over the world. He later joined Dance With Me at the Galleria studio in Houston before moving to New York.
His students have been finalists in almost every competition they have entered. Adam was named Top Teacher three years in a row at the Killick Royal Championships, in the same years Karen Hardy Studios was named top studio. He also won Top Teacher at the New York Dance Festival and placed second at the Miami Killick Classic.
