Only Male Dancer Over 16

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32295, 13 May 1970, Page 18

Only Male Dancer Over 16

Seventeen-year-old Kim Thompson has a unique position in the Christchurch Competitions Society’s annual festival being run in the city this week. He is the only male competitor over 16 in the dancing section, and is one of the best.

So far he has won the Ken But, he said, he did not Wright Challenge Cup for the feel strange about being the song and tap dance solo for only male in his class. “I competitors over 16, was used to, but I grew out of it,” placed second with two girls he said. in the tap dance trio class, He has been dancing for and was third in the open tap 12 years, and has taken part dance solo. in competitions at Greymouth

and Ashburton, doing “pretty well.” i! Results of yesterday’s competitions ye're: Vocal Music (Judge: Mrs V. Major. Dunedin.) Solo (airls under 12): Kathleen de Goldl 1, Therese Mangan ;2. Niki Green 3. Solo (under ■| eight): Stuart Walker 1, Shane Murphy 2, Brett Elwood 3. .'Sacred song <l4 years and [[under 16): Mary Reid 1. Roger Sheard 2. Scottish song <l2 years and under 14): Susan (Cockburn 1, Philippa Burl 2. 1 1 Mark Shaw and David White :| (equal) 3. Scholarship solo (12 i years and under 16): Philippa Burt 1. Roger Sheard 2. Philippa ■ Sheehan 3. Folk song (15 years I and over): Sandra Shaw 1. ■ Men’s scholarship solo: David . Rogers 1, Malcolm Yeates 2, Colin Alexander 3. Test, solo (boys 12 years and under 16): l [Dean Elwood 1, David White 2. .(Roger Sheard 3. Secondary I schoolgirls’ scholarship solo: iJanette Van den Bosch 1, .(Brenda Price 2, Alison Fraser 3. .Sacred song (under 10): Sandra jLucas 1, Ta.nia Murphy 2. Nicola Mullins 3. Scottish song (16 (.years and under IS): Brenda Price 1, Sandra Shaw 2, Carolyn Ramsav 3. Action song (under ’’l4): Philippa Burt 1, Dean ■ (Elwood 2, Therese Mangan 3. .Sacred song <l6 years and under IS): Sandra Shaw 1. 'Brenda Price 2, Karyn France 3. i Speech And Drama , (Judge: Mrs E. M. Grut, Walmate.) Prepared Psalm reading ■ (under 12): Donna-Marie Davies .1, Pauline Whiting 2. Trudi , Tipple 3. Junior recitation (12 ' years and under 14): Anthony - Odgers 1, Donna-Marie Bartlett .2, Maryrose Wilkinson 3. ffoys test (eight years and under 1 10): Michael Harding I. Martin ' Howard 2, Charles Powell 3. . Scholarships (14 years and . under 16): Gerard Shaw 1. Mar--1 garet Howard 2, Peter Davey •)3. Nursery wbyme in character I (under eight): Eilish Moran 1. . John Davies 2. Luke McKenzie 13. Non-humorous character rejcital <l2 years and under 14): cPhillippa Brown 1. Maryrose (Wilkinson 2. Wendy Kelly 3. I'Light verse <lO years and under H 12): Elizabeth Owens 1. RoseJmarv Gallagher 2. Susan Powell 13. Mime <l2 years and under 1116): Sabrina Cox 1. Gerard Shaw >]2. Belina Johnson 3. Girls' test ~<l4 vears and under 16):.Rose- ' marv Bartlett 1. Margaret inoward 2, Sabrina Cox 3.

Dancing (Judge; Mrs R. Marshall, Lower Hutt) Novice classical ballet dance (under 7): Deborah Ewing 1, Leigh Boulter 2, Susan Wintermute 3. Poetic or classical barefoot dance (eight years and under 10): Gina-Lee Cox 1. Phillipa Reid 2, Lynne Currie 3. Tap duo (under 12): Warren Rasmussen and Jim Mason 1, Jann Gillman and Sharon Fletcher 2, Jackie Pratley and Donna Pratley 3. Character, demi-character, or character story dance (12 years and under 14): Julie Hood 1, Shelley Pannell 2. Bernadette Manson 3. Poetic or classical barefoot dance (10 years and under 12): Linda Martin 1, Dianne Honeybone 2. Vivienne Lonsdale 3. Song and tap dance solo (under 10): Brent Hofenk 1, Pamela Hermansen 2, Gina-Lee Cox 3. Classical ballet dance (10 years and under 14): Adrienne Purver 1, Sheryl Phillips 2, Susan Gibson 3. Open tap ballet: Suzanne Day School of Dancing 1 and 2. Song and tap dance solo (16 years and over): Kim Thompson 1. Christine McQueen 2, Maureen Foley 3. Song and dance (12 and over): Kim McGavock 1, Julie Hood 2, Mark Armstrong 3. Classical ballet dance (12 years and under 14): Paulette Reid 1, Bernadette Manson 2, Anita Wong 3. National ballet open: Penni Venter School of Ballet 1. Tap trio: Michael O’Conner, Brenda Park, and Susan Habgood 1, Kim Thompson, Robyn Burrows, and Christine Noble 2. Simultaneous tap duo: Susan Habgood

land Brenda Park 1, Anne Pater|son and Michael O’Connor 2. Peter Barton and Stephen BarJton 3. Character story dance | <l4 years and under 16): Marie i Kenny 1, Maureen Baker 2. Sheryl Giles 3. Instrumental (Judge: Mr W. Clarke. Dunedin.) Piano solo (10 years and under 12): Sophia Harris 1, Susan Burton 2. Julie Drain 3. Test piano solo (under 10): Tracey Scanlon 1, Stephen Hill and Lynn Horgan (equal) 2. Piano solo (under 10): Markham Lee 1, Suzanne O'Brien 2, Jennifer Hoy 3. Scholarship piano solo (under 12): Nathan Seeker 1. Susan Mohammed 2. Lynley Exton 3. Piano duet (under 11): Susan Burton and Vicki Philipson 1, Louise Teague and Helen Dallison 2, Yolanda Althuis and Trilby van Bree 3. Piano solo <lO years and under 12): Susan Mohammed 1, Lynley Exton 2. Nathan Seeker and Fiona Steedman (equal) 3. Violin solo (12 years and under 14): Philip Gnad 1. Sally Langley 2. Stephen Gourdie 3. Test piano solo (14 years and under 16). Wendy Tilley 1, Karene Woodfield 2. Christine Hill 3. Piano solo (14 years and under 16): Rosemary Bretherton 1. Wendy Tilley 2, Christine Hill 3. Piano duet (13 years and under 15): Wendy Tilley and Christine Hill 1. Kay Reiche and Linda Philipson 2. John Phipps and Susan Derrett 3. Scholarship piano solo (16 years and under 18): Michael Houston 1, Donald Brown 2. Helen Lawrence 3. Violin solo (14 years and over): Mark Seeker 1. no second placing. Mary Joliffe 3.