Selwyn Times: June 06, 2017

12 Tuesday June 6 2017
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Young dancers Disneyland-bound
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
STEPPING OUT onto a stage
in the heart of Disneyland is no
more than a fantasy for most
young dance hopefuls.
But the dream has become a
reality for 15 promising dancers
at the Selwyn School of Dance.
The dancers will travel to Los
Angeles in July next year not
only to perform on the stage at
Disneyland Resort but on Hollywood
Boulevard.
The pupils were selected to
join an array of dancers from all
over schools all lover Australasia
after sending an audition tape
to company World Class Dance
Tours.
They will spend two weeks in
Los Angeles taking dance classes
at some of the top dance studios
in the city including Millennium
Dance Complex.
Each student will need $6000
to travel overseas and the school
will hold a fundraising concert
closer to the time.
The creative mind behind
choreographing the team dance
for the student’s big moment in
Disneyland is the school’s artistic
director Emma Body.
Mrs Body said the students
are excited by the opportunity
and she along with several other
teachers at the school will be
EXCITED: Emma Body and some of the dancers who will perform in Los Angeles. Back row (left
to right) – Rebecca Matthews, Emma Boyes, Samantha Oakley, Emma Body, Kayla Shaw and
Nikki Li. Front row – Ella Body, Alex Paton, Phillipa Johnston, Mia Williams, Harriet Body and Avril
Eatherley.
looking to put together a 30min
dance piece.
“I know a lot of kids are keen
on doing stuff from film La La
Land . . . generally it will be
something pretty upbeat,” she
said.
Mrs Body, of Rolleston had
bright beginnings to the dancing
world when she was a child,
making the cut for the Royal
New Zealand Ballet.
“In those days they came and
auditioned everybody. It was a
bit bigger deal than these days.
They tend to just pick the people
who fit the costumes,” she said.
Growing up in Nelson, Mrs
Body trained under Gillian
Francis before she moved to
study Otago University and took
an interest in contemporary
dance while there.
She then danced and taught
with Canterbury Ballet before
she had two children and set up
her own school in 2007.
“It is really cute, my eldest
daughter when she was four she
was at a pre-school in Rolleston
and must have told one of the
teachers there “mummy was a
dancer” and they approached me
about taking some pre-school
classes,” Mrs Body said.
When her pre-school pupils
reached school-age Mrs Body
decided to set up her own school
to give dancers in Selwyn an
option.
Her own school now has
more than 200 dancers with
one travelling from as far as the
Heathcote Valley to train.
Dreaming up a mega Disneyland
dance routine is not the
only showpiece Mrs Body has on
the go with her ballet pupils set
to perform the Coppélia ballet
at Middleton Grange School on
June 24.
The comic ballet show brings
back fond memories for Mrs
Body who danced as a child in
the Coppelia’s Waltz of the Hours
for the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Wanting only the best for her
students, Mrs Body is a “sucker
for punishment” making about
50 tutus from scratch for the
dancers in the show with her
mother Jeannie Stewart.
•For more information on
the school’s production
of Coppelia go to www.
selwynschoolofdance.co.nz
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