Young Canberra ballet dancer Samuel Holmes leaping into success after months spent training in isolation

Samuel Holmes has been dancing since before he could walk.

“My daughter Talia was already dancing when Sam was born so I used to wheel him in in the pram,” his mother Jayne Holmes said.

The 13-year-old Canberra boy has had a whirlwind 2020.

He started his fourth year in a prestigious training program with the Australian Ballet, and, after a rigorous audition process, he was accepted into another top line-up — the Queensland Ballet’s Guest Academy Program.

But the feather in his cap, so far, has been his acceptance into New York’s Joffrey School of Ballet…