Two ballerinas who train at Coquitlam's danceLab Studios have twirled back home after a month in Toronto, where they studied with the National Ballet School (NBS) of Canada.
Sarah Davies, 14, of Coquitlam, and Erika Bernard, 11, of Maple Ridge, were two of four ballet students from B.C. accepted for the professional summer school program in July.
Davies, a Grade 10 student at Gleneagle secondary, had also been accepted to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy summer school in New York City this year.
In previous years, she went to the summer intensive at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and the Okanagan summer intensive in Kelowna.
Last year, Bernard was in the NBS summer program at 10 - the youngest age the school accepts, said danceLAB co-artistic director Jennifer Hill who has taught both girls Cecchetti Ballet since they were seven years old.
"We are incredibly proud of them for their dedication and commitment to their dance training. While most dancers break for the summer, they put on their ballet tights and ballet shoes all of July, dancing four to five classes a day, six days a week," Hill and co-artistic director Kirsten Sjoman said in a news release.
