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Royal Academy of Dance
Dance School in Wellington

www.rad.org.nz
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Gen e International Ballet Competition Gen e International Ballet Competition. The competition originated quite humbly in 1931 as the Adeline Gen e Gold Medal’ and was introduced as an additional incentive for candidates who had passed the Solo Seal examination. Felicity Garratt was the first recipient of this award with a silver medal and then a bronze medal added in 1934 and 1956 respectively, and both gold and silver medals introduced for male dancers in 1938. The award continued to progress and develop into a competition format and remarkably it has taken place almost every year since 1931, even during the Second World War. In 2002, however Luke Rittner, Chief Executive, took the landmark decision to hold the competition outside London in order to embrace its international spirit taking it to Australia where Sydney Opera House played host to a record number of candidates.
Gen e International Ballet Competition Gen e International Ballet Competition. History of the RAD Overseas Scholarship, 14 Dance Scholarship Foundation, 14 Dance Scholarship, and Alexander Grant Training Award. The first RAD Overseas Scholarship was awarded in 1941 to a young Rowena Jackson who had to wait till the war was over in Europe before taking it up. Rowena went on to take Gold in the prestigious Gen e Awards along with fellow New Zealander, Bryan Ashbridge who won the Male Gold Medal the same year. Subsequent winners of the RAD Overseas Scholarship until include Alexander Grant, Mary Jane O’Reilly, Sherilyn Kennedy, Kerry Anne Gilberd, Cora Kroese and Katie Hurst Saxton.
A group of 26 Founder members each pledged to contribute 250 per year for ten years to ensure the continuation of the newly named 14 Dance Scholarship. The name was decided on because 14 was the minimum number of Founder Members required to ensure funding for the first 10 years from 2004. The 14 Dance Scholarship event is held biennially, and is awarded in honour of Jeane Horne, who returned from the UK in 1932 with the RAD syllabus in her luggage. She and other passionate teachers of the era, including Lily Stevens, Constance Macdonald, Dorothy Daniels, Jean Ballantyne, Beryl Nettleton and Bettina Edwards, made a huge contribution to dance in New Zealand

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