N.Z. dancer gains top award
PA Wellington A Wellington dancer, lan Ferguson, has won the highest accolade for pupils of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Ferguson, aged 19, has been awarded the Solo Seal, the highest award given in Royal Academy examinations.
He is the only dancer in New Zealand to receive the award this year. Ferguson is a secondyear student at the New Zealand School of Dance, and has not decided whether to audition for the Royal New Zealand Ballet or return for a third year at the school. He has been learning ballet for 10 years and said that explaining he was a ballet student to his friends at primary school was "difficult.”
It had been accepted by the time he reached secondary school. Ferguson, born in England, was introduced to ballet when aged three; his family emigrated when he was six.
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