Ladysmith Chronicle, March 17, 2015

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Ladysmith dancer Kayla Henry has qualified for a prestigious international ballet competition in New York City. Next month, the 10-year-old will compete at the Youth America Grand Prix New York Finals April 10-16. This international competition is the culmination of the Youth America Grand Prix season, which is considered the world’s largest global network of dance. Kayla, who dances with the Ten-year-old Kayla Henry soars high above the stage during the recent regional dance competition in Seattle where she qualified for the Youth Kirkwood Academy of Perform- America Grand Prix New York finals in New York. SUBMITTED PHOTO ing Arts in Nanaimo, qualified for the New York Finals after by her ballet teacher, Chantelle shops, and the Royal Winnipeg York City, and she is looking forcompeting at the regional com- Norris, for three judges and re- Ballet and National Ballet School ward to travelling to the Big Apple. petition in Seattle in January. ceived scores of 94, 95 and 96. of Canada will be giving out schol- Her whole family is making the There are 12 different regional Kayla has a bit of an idea of what arships. trip. ballet competitions, and danc- to expect when she competes in There are three different age catKayla says she is very excited for ers who scored 95 per cent or New York because she has seen egories at the New York Finals — the competition. higher qualified for the New the movie First Position about the nine to 11, 12-14 and 15-18. Kayla “I’m actually really proud of myYork Finals, explained Kayla. New York Finals, but no one from will be competing in the nine to 11 self because I never really thought At the regional competition in her dance studio has gone before. category. I could do this, but now that I have Seattle, Kayla competed against “I’m looking forward to just So far, there are 127 competitors done it, it’s like a goal achieved,” 35 other dancers in the contem- watching people dance because in Kayla’s age category. There are she said. porary category. there’s going to be people there 400 soloists in total in three age Kayla has been dancing a lot “It was really fun because there from all over the world,” she said. categories, and 1,200 dancers will more this year, as she spends half Kayla Henry were a lot of people from differ- “I feel good about it. I’m a little bit be attending the event as soloists her day dancing and half her day ent places, and they were all re- nervous, but I think it will be re- or group ensembles or invited for doing school work at Kirkwood ally good,” she said. “It was just ally fun.” master classes. Academy of Performing Arts a really good experience.” Each day, Kayla, who has been Kayla says her goal for the com- through the studio’s Pre-ProfesKayla performed her ballet dancing since she was three years petition is to dance her best. sional Dance Program. solo, which was choreographed old, will get a chance to do workKayla has never been to New see Experience page 4

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