Born in Leicester, Patricia Tierney trained at Bush Davies School and The Rambert Academy, followed by a freelance period of choregraphing and teaching and studying Benesh Movement Notation (BMN) at the Benesh Institute London, graduating with AI Chor.

In 1987 she joined the Hamburg Ballet as Choreologist under the direction of John Neumeier, working on both new creations and revivals, she also given early opportunities to re-stage Neumeier’s ballets in Europe and USA.She returned to England in 1992 to work as Choreologist at English National Ballet before joining Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1993 as Dance Notator. In 2023 she was promoted to Répétiteur/ Benesh Choreologist.

Using BMN she has recorded, assisted, taught and lead rehearsals of many new ballets and revivals of works across Birmingham Royal Ballet’s repertoire, as well as staging the choreography of Sir Frederick Ashton: Enigma Variations, Dante Sonata, The Dream; Sir David Bintley: Carmina burana, Cinderella ,E=mc², Faster, Still Life at the Penguin Café, The Shakespeare Suite; Stanton Welch: Powder, for various companies in Australia, Europe, Japan,and the USA.

Since 2018 she has managed and organised the BRB Video Archive.

Between 2009 and 2017 Patricia also taught the BMN course ‘Score Reading for Dancers’ to sixth-form students of Elmhurst Ballet School, Birmingham.