Cwmbran student scoops top dance scholarship (From South Wales Argus)
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Cwmbran student scoops top dance scholarship
12:40pm Thursday 24th May 2012 in News
ON HIS WAY: Wesley Maddocks has won a scholarship to the Urdang Academy, a top London dance school
A CWMBRAN actor has the world at his feet after receiving offers from seven different academies before choosing to take up a scholarship at a top dance school.
Wesley Maddocks, 17, has been performing on the stage for the last nine years – featuring in more than 50 local productions.
But now the performer, from Llantarnam, is leaving Gwent for a place at the Urdang Academy in London.
The teenager was offered a full scholarship at the school to cover the three years’ fees and said he can not wait to start in September.
Mr Maddocks started acting when he was eightyears- old and went on to learn ballet, tap, jazz and modern at the Sharon Fitzgerald School of Dance where he is still a student.
For the last two years, Mr Maddocks has been studying performing arts at Filton College in Bristol and is now preparing for his last two shows in Wales – with Centre Stage Cymru in June and the Sharon Fitzgerald Dance School Show which takes place in July.
Ms Fitzgerald said: “It is a wonderful opportunity that Wesley has been given and I am very proud of him.”
