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Dancing to the Top

Who knows, there may be another Dame Margot Fonteyn among them! These pupils of Gwenth McNaughton were examined by Miss Joan McGrath of Australia recently and gained passes and mentions in the British Ballet Organisation exams.

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Scholars with honours are, from left, Michelle Newman, Joanna Bound, Lee-Ann Moore, Anne Swarbrick, Tina Couper, Jenny Teutenberg.

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Sandra Allen gained her grade five pass plus.

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Grade one honours, Teresa Healey, Trudy Stratton and Sarah Symon.

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Barbara Mutch, Alannah Marriott and Carolyne Symon were highly commended in grade one.

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Susan Healey and Colleen Mason gained honours in grade two.

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Scholars who were highly commended were, in front, Mary Ellmers and Karen Pattie and, from left at back, Tracey Bell, Denise Macdonald, Lynne Allison and Shelli and Kerri Newman.

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Edourd Espinosa, a fourth generation dancer, whose father, Leon, was chairman of the British Ballet Organisation from 1930 to 1950, and co-founder of the Association of Operatic Dancing (now known as the Royal Academy of Dancing). Exams held are still the British Ballet Organisation exams.