DANCING has helped set Demica March on a career path – not on the stage but as a primary school teacher.

The interaction she has had with different groups of young children at the studio helped her conclude that was where her future was based.

The Year 11 School of Total Education (SOTE) student is in open performance groups with children as young as nine years of age.

They all have different roles within the same dance and Demica’s learnt to relate to and mentor younger children … but that doesn’t mean she’s any less excited than them about performing at Disneyland, California, in September.

“On a scale of one to 10, I’m about a billion out of 10,” she said. “I hope to see and do everything possible when I’m there.”

Demica, who started dancing four years ago and has been with the performance team for three years, learns contemporary, jazz and ballet during the 10 hours a week she spends at the Killarney School of Dance studio.

“That doesn’t count the hours I spend dancing at home,” the 16-year-old said.

Her preference is for the contemporary genre because she loves telling stories through dance.

Those story-telling skills might come in handy in a few years time when Demica fronts a school room of young charges.

Special concert

KSD dancers will perform in a special flood relief charity concert at the Warwick Town Hall on Sunday afternoon.

The concert, which will feature selected performance dances and routines from the 2010 recital, will raise funds for a flooded dance school at Goodna and the twice-inundated Condamine community.

Tickets, at $10, are available from Southern Downs Regional Council Warwick office for the 2.30pm show.