4 Jun 2019

Former ballerina awarded NZOM

From First Up, 5:25 am on 4 June 2019

A woman who performed with the world's greatest ballet dancers before teaching go-go girls to shake and shimmy on New Zealand tv has been made an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Dorothea Ashbridge, known as Thea to her friends, has had a huge influence on dance in New Zealand - from classical ballet to the ground breaking eighties troup Limbs. As a young woman, she danced with legends Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev in Britain's Royal Ballet. Now, at 91, she tells reporter, Rowan Quinn, about her life in dance