Tardent was previously a professional dancer at the London Royal Academy of Dance and now owns and operates a Pilates studio in Double Bay, Sydney.
She studied ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance from the Toronto branch of the Royal Academy of Dance, London.
Royal Navy | Royal Air Force | Academy Awards | United States Military Academy | Royal Dutch Shell | Russian Academy of Sciences | Royal Society | Royal Albert Hall | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Opera House | Royal Victorian Order | Royal Engineers | Royal Australian Navy | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | dance | Royal National Theatre | Royal Canadian Navy | Royal Canadian Air Force | Royal Court Theatre | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Royal Marines | United States Naval Academy | United States Air Force Academy | Royal Commission | Royal Academy of Music | Anne, Princess Royal | So You Think You Can Dance | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane |
She was a fellow, examiner, lecturer, committee and council member of the ISTD, life member of the RAD, and Honorary MA.
And it was Pamela May who coached her for her performance at the Royal Academy of Dance's Promotional Dance Day in Eindhoven, Holland, led by the Academy's president Antoinette Sibley.
In 1920, she collaborated with four other great dancers -- Adeline Genée, Tamara Karsavina, Edouard Espinosa, and Phyllis Bedells—to form the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, which was later to become the Royal Academy of Dance.