Vienna Opera Ballet.

Another of the three beautiful ballets in the 2012 Vienna New Year Concert. xx

After viewing this ballet with "blind man's bluff", Miss Karen recalled her first bought eisteddfod routine at 8 yrs of age was blind man's bluff. During the years of training at Molly Windred's school in Cootamundra, Molly did not do eisteddfod routines so recommended Kim and Karen attend the holiday Summer Schools at the Lorraine Norton school in Sydney (ex students: Kathy Gorham, Marilyn Jones). We bought a movie camera and a tape recorder and all their dances were bought during these Summer schools resulting in many eisteddfod successes.Kim's first dance on pointe won her the Wagga Wagga under 15yrs Championship at only just 12 yrs of age. During those years the girls competed at Bathurst, Cowra, Wagga Wagga, Goulburn, Newcastle and Abermain eisteddfods and later Parramatta, Roselands, Sydney and Taree. Amongst their wins Kim also won the Taree open championship and Karen won a NSW championship and the Sydney Eisteddfod Mary Gunn scholarship. Their stage experience commenced at the early ages of 4yrs and 6yrs under the training of Miss Beverley Hepburn when they were chosen to appear on a regular Sydney Television programme "Ballet for Beginners" with Edna Mann, demonstrating examination steps and little dances:- Polly Flinders, also an Autumn Leaf and a Rose that they had performed in a group at Newcastle's very first Mattara Concert at the Newcastle Town Hall. xx