Nadine Senior, MBE (born Nadine Pickles; 4 October 1939 – 28 January 2016) was the founding principal of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, England.
[1][2] Senior was born Nadine Pickles, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, on 4 October 1939.
[3] In the late 1950s she had encountered the work of Rudolf von Laban while at teacher training college, and she went on to apply his ideas while teaching PE and holding the position of deputy headmistress at Harehills Middle School in Harehills, Leeds.
"[4] Forty of her pupils, mostly male, became professional dancers, including the group of young men who moved on to Intake High School and later formed the Phoenix Dance Theatre[4][5] and the award-winning choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller, who would become the company's artistic director.
She retired in 2001,[6] and was Chair of the Trustees of Phoenix Dance Theatre for the next six years.