DUNEDIN DANCER

Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 3

DUNEDIN DANCER

SUCCESSFUL FUTURE PREDICTED APPLAUDED BY RUSSIAN BALLET A 'bright future in dancing is predicted for Miss Rowena Jackson, 11 years of age, of Dunedin. Dancing in Auckland this week before the ballet master and principal dancers of the Russian Ballet, she created a very favourable impression. During one of the intervals of a morning rehearsal, she gave a performance which evoked a storm of applause from the members of the company who gathered around

to witness the trial. Leon Woizikowsky. premiere danseur, realised that the girl possessed outstanding ability and waived his intention of not teaching anyone in New Zealand by offering to give lessons daily to Rowena. He considers that she has a brilliant future ahead of her, and recommends that she should go to England or the Continent to study under one of the masters there. Mr Woizikowsky paid a tribute to the soundness of the tuition which Rowena Jackson had already received. She was trained solely by the Dunedin teachers, Miss Rosetta Powell and Mr Stan Lawson, who took her to Auckland with them when they went there last year to stage shows. Rowena is shortly returning to Dunedin to study with _ the Lawson-Powell School of Dancing, and it is more than likely that she will make one or .two public appearances.