Rona Hart obituary

Our friend Rona Hart, who has died aged 88, was a celebrated dancer and teacher who in 1946 founded the Rona Hart School of Dance, in Hampstead, north London. She taught there until her retirement in 1998, and the school still flourishes.Her formative years were spent in Africa. The daughter of Iris (nee Goose) and Arthur Hart, Rona was born in Uganda, where her father worked for the colonial service as a surveyor. Rona was taught traditional local dances by her ayah. Her family returned to the