Scholarships for dance awarded

Press, 1 February 1988, Page 7

Scholarships for dance awarded

Christchurch dancers gained two of the four scholarships awarded during the demonstration concert at the Residential Summer Dance School at Lincoln College recently. Jeanie Hobbs, aged 11, of Christchurch, won the junior prize for the most improved student in the Highland dance section, while Dianne Kidd, aged 13, of Southland, was awarded the senior prize. Both dancers received $250, for furthering their tuition. The other Christchurch dancer, Justine Bone, aged 14, has the chance to spend two weeks at the New Zealand School of

5 Dance, in Wellington, for r being the intermediate winner of the Anne Rowse i Scholarship for ballet. 1 The advanced recipient, t Alexandra Blair, aged 14, of Wellington, will also attend the school. , This year, more than - 240 students from t throughout New Zealand - attended the dance > school, and many 1 teachers from Christs church schools went to i. Lincoln each day to view 3 the classes. r The function is organised and run each year by i the committee of the ! > Christchurch Ballet 3 Society, who said that this - year’s school was one of f the best they had held.