A gifted young ballet dancer from Linlithgow has won a place on the Scottish national team due to compete at the Dance World Cup in Rome this summer.
While she trains for the World Cup, Lucy Roy (14) is studying at Edinburgh Festival Ballet School.
Lucy said she started dancing at the age of three and has always loved it, ading her teachers have been a real inspiration and she has loved gettting to work with world-famous ballet dancers like Peter Shaufuss and Johan Christensen.
The opportunity to perform at this summer’s World Cup and previous performances like the Queen’s birthday celebrations were made possible through Edinburgh Ballet, another school Lucy goes to part-time.
She continued: “I love performing on stage and I’ve been lucky enough to dance at the Queen’s 90th Birthday celebrations down in London and big stage productions of the Nutcracker and Wizard of Oz in Edinburgh.
“It feels like it’s all been leading up to this moment in Rome in the summer. The whole team is training hard and we’re super excited to see how well we can do.”
The school is run by Schaufuss, the dancer, choreographer and director famously founded the English National Ballet in 1988 and has, in a stellar career, performed and directed all over the world.
Youngsters aged 12 and older with ambitions of a career in dance can apply to audition for a place at Edinburgh Festival Ballet School by emailing school administrator Lee Walls at lee@rosetheatreedinburgh.com. The next audition will take place on Saturday 22 February. For more information, visit www.edinburghfestivalballet.com.
