WON BALLET AWARD

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 22

WON BALLET AWARD

Dancer For 15 Years Twenty-one-year-old Brian North, who has been learning classical ballet for less than a year, won the Christchurch Ballet Society’s £5O scholarship to attend the New Zealand Ballet Company's summer school in January. Mr North, whose ballet teacher is Miss Lorraine Peters, has been dancing for many years—but in another field As a pupil of Miss Muriel Waugh, he began highland dancing 15 years ago, and has won many championships, including 20 at Dominion level. In 1962 Mr North graduated from Lincoln College with a diploma in horticulture. He now has the chance of joining the New Zealand Ballet as a dancer. Mr Kenneth Tillson, ballet master to the New Zealand Ballet, was the judge of the scholarship contest, held on Monday evening. He was impressed by the standard of the winner, and the runnerup. Miss Lyndsay McLachlan, aggd 19 The Christchurch Ballet Society was founded in 1961 by Miss Peters, who is now its director. It is open to all ballet students in the city, from any ballet school, and its aim is to foster the art of ballet, and encourage interest and co-operation among young dancers. A junior ballet scholarship given by the society, for a week at a ballet summer school in Timaru, will be decided in November.