Busy Dancer (picture)

March 1956

South Yorkshire Times March 24, 1956

Busy Dancer

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Denaby dancer, Eric Smith, is making full use of his talent both as teacher and dancer.

He his ballet master for Wombwell Amateur Operatic Society and for Denaby Operatic Society. He has just danced in “Aladdin” at Denaby and in “King’s Rhapsody” at Wombwell and will be in the next show at Denaby – “No. No Nanatte.”

Eric is the only male ballet dancer in the district and has danced at Scarborough open-air theatre in “Annie Get Your Gun”, and in Cornwall and on television.

Mr Smith, who is the founder of a school of dancing at Conisbrough, approves the tendency nowadays for athletics and football is to take an interest in ballet; they realise, he says, it gives them stamina and agility.