DANCE RECITAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 2

DANCE RECITAL

Miss Vivienne Healy presented her pupils in a very bright and attractive dance recital on Tuesday evening at the Repertory Theatre, which was packed to the doors. A large number were unable to obtain seats. The artistic operatic, smart tap and spirited Highland dancing reflected very careful training and features of the evening were the clever items by the youngest pupils. The most unique item W£U a large group ballet performed by the successful Royal Academy examination pupils and was the first ballet of R.A.D. students ever presented in the city. The variety of items, with very beautiful frocking and a very high standard of dancing for such young children, combined to provide a highly-successful recital. The programme was as tollows: Overture, “Invitation to the Waltz” (Weber), Miss I. Chamberlain; hornpipe, Joyce Cameron, Mavis Cameron, Rae McMillan and Ngaire Smith; “Shipmates Forever,” Juan McLean; tap ballet, Beth Wallace, Zona Russell, Phyllis Smith-Pilling, Joan Green, A. Smith, J. McLean, Shirley Gibbs, Mavis Reardon, Marjorie Dyke, Patty Gibb, Freda Jones and Irene Robson; Parisian doll, Thelma Dandy; Dresden china romance, June Orton and Audrey O’Hara; Tally ho! Beverley Hawkins; Russian peasants, B. Wallace and A. Smith; song and tap, Pat Bennett and Lavinia Tui; operatic, Zeta Robb; bellboy, Ken Taylor; Irish jig, B. Wallace; sleeping beauty, J. Orton; Sur les Pointes, T. Dandy; tap duo, Ngaire Sherman and Dulcie Ryland; tap ballet, A. Smith, B. Wallace, Z. Russell, P. Smith-Pilling and J. Green; blue Hawaii, P. Bennett and L. Tui; operatic, Marie Douglas; tap, Freda Jones; idyll, T. Dandy; two modern steppers, B. Wallace and Z. Russell; Royal Academy examination passes group ballet, B. Hawkins, J. Orton, M. Eastwood and A. O’Hara; soloists, S. Lawless, Z. Robb and A. Smith; entr’acte, “Country Garden” (Percy Grainger). Miss I. Chamberlain; “In the Forest,” by the very, very junior girls (woodsprites), N. Fountain, S. Gibbs, L. Orton, T. Rogerson, Betty Maynard, Roa Eccles, E. Grey, M. Douglas, V. Ewings; sleepy briar rose, Beverley Hawkins; autumn leaf, N. Sherman; white bunny, M. Douglas; Red Ridinv Hood, Marie Eastwood; tap ballet, tap class; Hungarian Gipsy maid, Zeta Robb; operatic, Thelma Dandy; jig, K. Taylor; April showers, M. Douglas; hornpipe, F. Jones; tap ballet, tap class; Irish duo, D. Ryland and N. Sherman; war dance of golden eagle. Z. Robb; song and tap, T. Dandy; operatic, P. Bennett and L. Tui; Dutch, B. Wallace; and fling, J. Cameron, M. Cameron, Rae McMillan and Freda Jones.