Jill Kemp opened the Jill Foster Dance Centre in 1980.
The centre now has eight schools catering for over 700 pupils.  Jill’s policy is to make dance available to all and as such offers equal opportunities and is totally non-selective. With this in mind Jill created “Weenie Wiggler” classes to give the under threes access to Freestyle dance and teaches in both mainstream and special needs schools.

Jill has trained many hundreds of freestyle competitors and undefeated teams. She judges championships and festivals, and promotes events on a regular basis. Jill spent many years as committee member, secretary and chairman of the ADFP Midland Area and was presented both the professional and the area award.

Jill was appointed an IDTA Freestyle examiner in 1999.  This has given her the opportunity of examining thousands of candidates both home and abroad. Professional coaching is an integral part of the school and Jill is rewarded by the excellent results achieved by candidates, many of whom have been nominated for the John Dilworth award, including the Freestyle winner (2003). 

Lecturing all levels of dance has kept Jill busy, but dance associations regularly request her choreography for young children. 

Jill has contributed to the new Dance Foundation degree and has developed units in both event and medal test organisation.