Remarks On Ballet “Not True Picture”
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, August 3. Commenting on a recent statement by the Australian and New Zealand representative of the British Ballet Organisation (Mrs V. Lacey) that she was shocked by the “extremely bad standards of some of the pupils seen in New Zealand,” the secretary of the Royal Academy of Dancing (Mr R. C. Morpeth) said today that her remarks did not represent truly the whole picture. Mr Morpeth said the aca-
demy reports on the standard of child candidates would not be available until the academy’s two examiners had completed their work in New Zealand towards the end of the year. As far as the academy’s older candidates were concerned, the standards were certainly not poor. He said Miss Beryl Jackson. who recently spent two months in New Zealand, conducting the major examination for the academy, described the standard of work as “very high,” particularly 'among male dancers.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30511, 5 August 1964, Page 2
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