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These ballet students can do more than dance! Providing a spectacle for onlookers, some Torquay Dance Academy students showed their skills in balance and coordination at Point addis over the weekend as they took to the surf in tutus instead of wetsuits. Torquay Dance Academy owner Kim Fraser came up with a creative idea for a photoshoot involving her students, combing their love of ballet and other extra-curricular activities when realising a lot of her students could also surf, skateboard and compete in triathlons. Pictured here are scarlett currie and Luella white. Click here<\/a> for more on Torquay Dance academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These ballet students can do more than dance! Providing a spectacle for onlookers, some Torquay Dance Academy students showed their skills in balance and coordination at Point addis over the weekend as they took to the surf in tutus instead of wetsuits. Torquay Dance Academy owner Kim Fraser came up with a creative idea for […]<\/p>\n

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