The Star: October 05, 2023

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Young
ballerina
faces
decision
of a
lifetime
EN POINTE: Tamison
Soppet has gained a
scholarship to some of
Rotary club
funds TVs
for cancer
patients
CANCER PATIENTS and their
visitors can now watch TV in
their rooms thanks to a Rotary
fundraising effort.
The Bishopdale-Burnside
Rotary Club has made a $20,000
donation to the Cancer Society
Canterbury from money raised
from its successful Bookarama.
The money will pay for TV sets
the society has installed in each of
its patient rooms.
Said the society’s chief executive
Nicola Coom: “We are very grateful
to the Bishopdale-Burnside
Rotary for their donation of
$20,000. This donation has meant
we have been able to purchase televisions
for each of the 50 patient
rooms.
“Patients come to us from all
over the South Island. They’re in
an unfamiliar city undergoing
cancer treatment, which can
mean they spend a fair amount
of their time in bed or exhausted,
the world’s best ballet
schools after winning
unwell and sometimes confined to
their room.
• By Sasha Watson
TAMISON SOPPET might only
be 13, but she has what could be
a life-defining decision to make.
The Convergence Dance
Studios student has been offered
scholarships to the Royal Ballet
School in London, John Cranko
Ballet in Germany, Princess
Grace Dance Academy in
Monaco and the Australian
Ballet School in Melbourne.
Tamison has the opportunity
to follow in the footsteps of
Italian Alessandra Ferri, who
attended the Royal Ballet
School in the early 1980’s; or
Queen Elizabeth II’s appointed
school, Dame Margot Fonteyn;
or even the famous Rudolf
Nureyev.
“Tamison has been competing
all her life and dancing since
she was four. Her dream is to
become a professional dancer,”
said her mother, Toni Soppet.
a major competition in
Sydney.
dancing at different schools,
and see what is ou there for
her.”
Tamison competed a the
Youth America Grand Prix
ballet competition, held in
Sydney late last month, against
“Having a television for entertainment
purposes and staying
connected with the outside
world contributes greatly to their
recuperation and relaxation,” said
Coom.
“It also helps us create that
‘home away from home’ that we
strive to achieve.
“A heartfel thanks from
prima ballerina assoluta of the
“Now, she has an opportunity
to travel the world, experience
more than 200 dancers aged
12-14.
• Turn to page 5
all of us at Cancer Society to
Bishopdale-Burnside Rotary. We
cannot do what we do withou the
generosity of people and groups
like you.”
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