Megan Garner, 14, from Tolworth Girls’ School has won a place at prestigious Laban Contemporary Dance in Creekside, London.

She was chosen for one of this year’s 20 places at from a field of 158 other dancers after a four-and-a-half hour audition and interview.

She has been dancing since the age of two-and-a-half at Gina Van Dyke’s Stage School in Surbiton.

Her mother Nicola Woodmore-Garner said: “She is so excited.”

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