About Us

About Us

How it all started and the future

In 2024, Emilia-Jane went for a first date with her future husband, Richard, and told him she dreamed of teaching twerking to women for empowerment. He said he'd have to introduce her to his best friend, Sarah, as that was her dream too. He introduced them on their 4th date and the twerk dream unfolded from there.

Sarah and Emilia-Jane decided to train with Twerk After Work along with their friend Charlotte (a local booty bass DJ) and spent the summer of 2024 training, twerking and getting to know each other whilst forming the foundations of the South West Twerk Collective.

In October 2024, after 6 months of training, planning and getting to know each other they launched their first weekly classes which sold out from the first week.

In 2025, they ran twice weekly classes as well as hosting their first special events - Jiggle + Steam, hen-do's, birthday parties, performed flash mobs at local venues and launched their first courses (Beginners and Advance your Twerk).

In 2026, the SW Twerk Collective changed to SW Twerk School to reflect the changing nature of our offering - with dedicated students, in-person courses and dreams of online courses, trainings and school merch.

Meet the Team

Emilia-Jane

Co-founder & Instructor

Emilia-Jane danced from the age of 4 years old in ballet, modern, tap, irish and street and loved performing on stage. After falling away from dance during her tumultuous teenage years, she returned to dance in the form of hula-hooping at age 18. She began performing in her early 20's as part of a circus troupe, performing as a multi-hoop fire and LED performer at local venues and festivals.

Her dance practice developed as she studied Human Ecology, permaculture and Menstrual Cycle Awareness - beginning to explore African and Caribbean dance styles. She studied women's yoga, yoga nidra and herbalism whilst exploring moving with nature.

Meeting Sarah and co-founding the South West Twerk School in 2024 brought together her love for embodied movement, cyclical living, afro-caribbean dancing and building community. Her passion is creating brave spaces for women to connect with their bodies, pelvis and bliss body through yoga, dance and sisterhood.

Sarah

Co-founder & Instructor

Sarah danced from 5 to 16 years old in tap, ballet, modern, hiphop and street dance. She was introduced to Dancehall music at 17 and became obsessed with Twerk and started self teaching from dance music videos across various genres including RnB, HipHop and Dancehall.

She then embarked on a 16 year career in Physiotherapy specialising in Women's health but twerk would always be with her on the dancefloors across London.

Sarah believes that the key to connecting to your essence and living an abundant life is by dancing every day with your whole body and this is what Twerk embodies. Sarah brings Women's Health and joy together in her classes, courses and workshops creating infectious and addictive wellbeing produced from the core of your being, your pelvis.

Jazz

Instructor

I am a lover of life. Born and raised festival fairy. Bringing people together, creating safe spaces and exploring the magic of this existence is what brings me joy.

Twerk has taught me so much about self love and I am very blessed to be able to share that. I believe that we all deserve to feel free within this vessel and what is a more beautiful way to do that than to twerk! Booty shaking is a love language. The Twerk After Work community feels like home.