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Fourteen-year-old Bianca Lungu spent her summer holidays dancing at several week-long seminars, where talent scouts assessed her abilities.
It is clear that they liked what they saw, as the offers came flooding in. She was awarded a two-week scholarship at the National Theatre Ballet School in Melbourne, as well as a scholarship to a summer course in London and offer to join the Intensive Training Programme at Dance Master International.
She was also reaccepted into the NZ School of Dance as a classical associate and selected by the Royal NZ Ballet for their 2020 Mentor Programme.
Bianca has already notched up 11 years of ballet, beginning lessons at the age of three.
She says she loved it from the start but her success – which includes performing with the Royal NZ Ballet as Flora in The Piano two years ago – has required a lot of hard work.
She spends around 25 hours a week dancing with Fusion dance studio and a school called Papilio.
The quietly spoken Whangaparaoa College student, who not surprisingly plans to pursue a career in ballet, says one of the things she loves most about dance is that “it lets you express yourself without speaking”.
Recently Bianca also found out that she is in the finals of the World Ballet Competition in Florida later this year.
