Fairfield Advance (Australia)
November 17, 2004 Wednesday

Troupe keen to show off skills

AFTER more than a year of rehearsals and preparation, Saturday could
not come soon enough for these 85 young Armenian dancers.

The Fairfield-based Armenian Sydney Dance Company (western region)
performed for the first time at the National Institute of Dramatic
Art Centre in Kensington last week.

A long time in the planning, company committee member and assistant
teacher Sam Berberian said the dancers were just looking forward to
getting on stage.

“They were all very excited,” Mr Berberian said.

“They had got to the stage where they were training every night
(leading up to the performance).”

The Fairfield region dancers were joined by another 60 performers
from the company’s Chatswood and Ryde regions.

While many of those dancers had appeared in previous performances,
almost all of those in the company’s western chapter, established in
September last year, were making their stage debut.

The Fairfield dancers performed some 15 different dances at the show.

“It’s quite a unique, traditional form of dancing,” Mr Berberian
said. “It’s quite skilful and energetic. It’s taught to children at a
pretty young age.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress