Peregian Springs News Inform know grow Volume 4. Issue 10
July 2019
DANCE STARS: London and New York beckon as talented local ballet dancers Alfie Shacklock, Yamina Yehoshua and Evie Wilson continue to shine.
Dancers hit the world stage PASSION, hard work, repetition, world class tuition and tireless attention to detail are just a few of the elements that have come together to bring success to a trio of Peregian Springs based dancers and have them jetting off to the other side of the world these school holidays to continue to grow their dance careers. Alfie Shacklock, Evie Wilson and Yamina Yehoshua, who all study at The Dance Centre Peregian Springs (TDCPS), have taken their dancing to the next level this year. Alfie, 14, won the Alana Haines Supreme Award in New Zealand at Easter, the biggest classical ballet competition in the Southern Hemisphere, and is in London this month at the Royal Ballet School having taken up the offer of a Summer School scholarship. It’s the latest in series of overseas
visits this year, adding to visits to the Dutch National Ballet School, Zurich Academy, The Australian Ballet, Queensland Ballet Academy and The European Ballet School. Evie and Yamina were spotted last year at a Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) workshop in Brisbane and chosen to receive Bolshoi Scholarships to this month’s New York Summer School. TDCPS co-director Deborah PreeceBroksom said the three dancers were “terrifically hard workers and have a motivation to keep going whatever the circumstances”. “These three successful dancers are among 16 local elite Vocational students on our programme all doing incredibly well. “It is all about being talented, motivated, passionate and having the right dance school.”
Peregian Springs News, July 2019