Key ballerina is recognized

By Observer Staff
| 4:00 a.m. August 3, 2011

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Tessa Sollom Williams, former ballet coach for the pre-junior ballet students of Sarasota Ballet School, was recognized for her work by the Royal Academy of Dance, in London. She received a certificate and letters of appreciation. She owned a ballet school in Washington for 34 years and taught at the Sarasota Ballet for nine. After 48 years of instructing, she says she is now enjoying the Key’s beaches.