Sarah heads to Laine Theatre Arts

CSBS dancer Sarah is heading to full-time training at the prestigious Laine Theatre Arts in London!

Sarah Leslie (18) successfully auditioned for the college against dancers from across the country. She also received offers from every college at which she auditioned including Performers College and Bird College!  Laine Theatre Arts is recognised as one of the leading training colleges for world class performers and we look forward to following Sarah's career! 

Successful and accomplished dancer

Sarah is a quiet and popular senior student and has achieved great success in her dance training with Central Scotland Ballet School including outstanding exams results, competition success, and awards including: Distinction for the RAD Grade 8 Award; representing CSBS at both Junior and Senior RAD Awards Days; representing CSBS on STV Live; performing in Disneyland Paris; studying and performing with Ballet West; performing as a soloist with the Russian State Ballet; performing in the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony 2014; Junior, Mids and Senior associate with Scottish Ballet; competing in the European dance finals (Vienna) with Starshine Elite; Millennium trophy winner twice; performing at Go Dance on many years; performing at Get Scotland Dancing (Edinburgh); performing alongside Pasha Kovalev; performing in a number of local pantomimes; competing in the Royal Academy of Dance Genée Dance Challenge finals in both Cardiff and London;

She has studied ballet, jazz and tap with us over the past 15 years, and was both a member of our Majors programme and Starshine Elite dance team. She has taken lead roles in our Majors ballet productions, most recently dancing the role of Peter Pan in our 2019 displays.

We wish her all the best for her training and look forward to following her career!