Tap Evolution – 2025 Scholarship Awards

Top Mark

This award is presented to the highest mark achieved in each genre and level. To qualify, the mark must fall between 90 and 100. More than one candidate may be eligible if multiple candidates achieve the same highest mark.

Recipients of the Top Mark Award receive an examination scholarship to sit the next examination grade in that genre (free of charge), a certificate of recognition, and a Top Mark Award badge. If the recipient does not use the scholarship to sit an examination in the following year, the examination scholarship is automatically forfeited.

 

Solo Seal
Taylor Waters – Dance24Seven (Auckland, NZ)

Advanced Tap 2
Elizabeth Pell – Centralpoint Dance Studios (Wanaka, NZ)

Advanced Tap 1
MacKenzie Waters – Dance24Seven (Auckland, NZ)

Intermediate Tap 3
Noah Duff – Top Jazz Ballet (Bunbury, WA)

Intermediate Tap 2
Peyton Waters – Dance24Seven (Auckland, NZ)

Intermediate Tap 1
Sophia Kelly – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)

Elementary Tap 3
Sylvia Grant – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)

Elementary Tap 2
Aishani Jasmin Kumar – Dance24Seven (Auckland, NZ)

Elementary Tap 1
Livia Te – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)

Junior Tap 3
Kendall Hartley – Top Jazz Ballet (Bunbury, WA)

Junior Tap 2
Audrey Tiller – Alana’s Dance Studio (Adelaide, SA)

Junior Tap 1
Calista Wong – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)

Primary Tap 2
Lucy Hambrook – Centralpoint Dance Studios (Wanaka, NZ)
Sophia Burnett – Alana’s Dance Studio (Adelaide, SA)

Primary Tap 1
Bonnie Ninness – Top Jazz Ballet (Bunbury, WA)

Pre Primary Tap
No marks in the 90’s

 

Top Tier

This award is presented to the next two highest results after the Top Mark Award recipient. To qualify, marks must fall between 90 and 99.5. In some cases, multiple students may receive the same mark and be awarded accordingly.

Recipients of the Top Tier Award receive a certificate of recognition and a Top Tier Award badge.

 

Solo Seal
No marks in the 90’s

Advanced Tap 2
Isabelle Soroka – Betty Bentley Dance Academy, Port Kennedy (Perth, WA)

Advanced Tap 1
Maeve O’Brien – DANZA (Auckland, NZ)
Francesca Palmer – Dance Motueka (Nelson, NZ)

Intermediate Tap 3
Yigu Ye – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)
Keiva Ralph – Caroline Stewart School of Dance (Wellington, NZ)

Intermediate Tap 2
Imogen Forde – All That Dance (Brisbane, QLD)
Salote Bamford – All That Dance (Brisbane, QLD)
Lacey Olivia Ellis – Dance24Seven (Auckland, NZ)

Intermediate Tap 1
Amelia Devlin – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)

Elementary Tap 3
Sacha Edgecombe – Dance Motueka (Nelson, NZ)
Daisy Gibbes – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)
Natalia D’Angelo – Deanne Fordham School of Dance (Melbourne, VIC)

Elementary Tap 2
Carys Elizabeth Valerie Lawes – Dance24Seven (Auckland, NZ)
Lucia Davison – DANZA (Auckland, NZ)

Elementary Tap 1
Rose Suamili – DANZA (Auckland, NZ)
Eden Thomas – Dance Motueka (Nelson, NZ)
Georgia Hardiker – All That Dance (Brisbane, QLD)

Junior Tap 3
Gigi Cox – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)
Jasmine Goonewardene – Silhouette Dance Studio (Perth, WA)
Kory Stephens – Aspire Arts Academy (Matamata, NZ)

Junior Tap 2
Kaia Gill – Dance Motueka (Nelson, NZ)
Avani Lala – Dance24Seven (Auckland, NZ)

Junior Tap 1
Eve Grant – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)
Enara Jayasinghe Arachchige – Studio 246 (Auckland, NZ)

Primary Tap 2
Karlee Smith – Alana’s Dance Studio (Adelaide, SA)
Ffion Edwards – Centralpoint Dance Studios (Wanaka, NZ)
Matilda Scoles – Academy of Dance Taranaki (Taranaki, NZ)

Primary Tap 1
Oscar Lyon – Formation Dance Training (Brisbane, QLD)

Pre Primary Tap
No marks in the 90’s