Armenian dancers to represent New Zealand at UK festApril 3, 2014 - 15:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Miramar duo, who conquered the New Zealand Latin dance scene, are now targeting England's prestigious Blackpool Dance Festival, according to The Dominion Post. Armenian-born Margarita Taryan and Erik Petrosyan placed first out of the New Zealand contestants at last year's New Zealand Open. Next month they fly to Blackpool to compete against 3000 dancers from 60 countries. Taryan said they felt a responsibility to represent New Zealand when they danced abroad. They have been training at least four hours a day. "The more you dance the better you get - it's an elite sport," The Dominion Post quoted her as saying. Taryan moved to New Zealand six years ago with her family. She had met Petrosyan while competing against him in Armenia, and a year ago she persuaded him to move here. She said they wanted to establish themselves as a professional dance couple and had worked hard to fine- tune their dancing relationship. "We have fights, but in the end it always comes back to dance." She said her love of dance was instilled at an early age by her mother and she felt like dancing was in her blood. "If I wasn't a dancer, I don't know what I would be. It's my dream," she said. Along with rehearsals, the couple teach dance lessons every week. Photo: The Dominion Post Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |