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Show Local student performs on BYU ballroom dance team IS Curt Holman, Pleasant Gm junior in human Z e development at BYU J . with the BYU Ballr'oom n Company that recently Wm !? 1 place in. the Latin Anieric f5' mation championship at 2 - , ternational Blackpool n P Festival in Blackpool, Enelann C Teams from 30 coung p peted in individual and tests. The 36 dancers SFe participated in the Weet f1' competition, taking third I1 -the Ballroom Dan?e Zjft company's artistic . directors' p and Linda Wakefield, plae in an invitation-only exh? a dance competition. J Dancers performed before m f out crowds of 6,000 each night in it Empress Ballroom with more ik? Vl 1,000 competitors. "This year!V particularly exhilarating for Z because we competed against 1 top dancers from West German. I 1 the first time," said Lee Waked! 101 "West Germany has 80 formatj ? teams and leagues in which i 1 teams compete against each other tfJ he said. 1 ai' A West German team placed rw Ele in the Ballroom Dance catgeJ and second in Latin Amerb V? dancing. Because the BYU tea f placed first, it has been invited to the world championship in Bremen '"r Germany, in November. ' il' Holman, a son of Wiilard J aBj 1 Melba Holman, graduated in i !! from Pleasant Grove High Sdmd 1 where he was on the student council and in Cloggers West, world Z champion clogging team. " . He performed in Europe on i ,! previous tour with the Ballrooi L Dance Company. He served i L mission to Chile for the ins i Church. " ta" torn |