2009 was another year of great celebrations at Rogerson Dance Studios. The results achieved at the studio were both prestigious and record breaking.
2009 started with Finola Xie being a finalist in the Royal Academy of Dance’s Intermediate Foundation Isabel Anderson Scholarship. This was then quickly followed by both Kahlia De Matos and Mitchell Hughes both performing with the Australian Ballet Company in their production of Nutcracker.
In the 2009 Auditions for the Australian Ballet Schools Interstate Junior Associate Programme we had 4 students offered spots commencing in 2010 with 3 all coming from the one class. This saw Isabella Di Lucia, Emily Gomersall and Mariah Heley-Wright all being offered a position in Level 1 and Sara Andrlon being offered a spot in Level 2. These 4 students join our current 3 students already in this prestigious programme. Finola Xie was promoted mid year last year from Level 1 to Level 3 in the Australian Ballet Schools Interstate Junior Associate Programme, where she joined fellow class mates Kahlia De Matos and Mitchell Hughes. This gives us an exceptional 7 students in 2010 in the Australian Ballet Schools Interstate Junior Associate Programme.
The success stories just kept coming as well. Students and troupes participated in the prestigious McDonald’s Performing Arts Challenge, which saw Emily Gomersall receive 1st place in the 9/u Classical Ballet and Highly Commended in the 9/u Demi Character; Kahlia De Matos was a finalist in the 13/u Contemporary and placed Highly Commended in the 13/u Modern Expressive; Isabella Di Lucia placed Highly Commended in the 9/u Classical Ballet; finished off by both our 14/u Contemporary and 12/u Contemporary Troupes placing Highly Commended.
Sara Andrlon then competed in the Society of Dance Arts 12/u Scholarship where she was a Semi Finalist, this is a fantastic achievement as Sara is still only 11 years old and has another year in the competition.
The year finished off with exceptional results in both our Royal Academy of Dance Ballet exams with 90% of students receiving Distinction results and 7 of these students achieving the very rare marks in the range of 90% to 96%. Our Glenn Wood Tap exams also saw such great results with 14 Students being awarded Gold Awards (a mark of 98% or higher).
Mitchell Hughes then once again performed with the Australian Ballet Company in their Christmas production of Sleeping Beauty, Mitchell thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity and experience as this brought him back to work with the company in the ballet he started with in December 2005 at the age of 9, this was the 6th time Mitchell has worked with the Australian Ballet Company.
What can we say the year then finished with our spectacular concert on 19th December where all students had a great time and performed well.
We believe these great results are achieved as we offer an environment, which encourages all students to have fun and achieve their best. Our staff are all qualified and respected within the industry and our studio has been a family business operating in the area for over 40 years, making us one of Sydney’s most respected dance schools.
New students are accepted and welcome at any time throughout the year.