Dancing Success

A New Zealand dancer took out one of the top accolades in the dancing world at this year’s Critic’s Circle National Dance Awards. Following in the success of her dance company, Rambert Dance, Pieter Symonds was named Best Female Performance in the modern section. Symonds was quite shy about giving an acceptance speech in what she describes as “a roomful of legends of the dance world.” The award was something Symonds had dreamed of winning and makes the years of hard work worth it. In an interview with The New Zealand Herald Symonds says: “I had to put an eloquent sentence together, which doesn’t come easily after a few glasses of champagne.”