Xanthe Gumbert Scholarship – Donation

This Scholarship is named in memory of Xanthe Gumbert, who exhibited an innate love for ballet from an early age.

During her short life she studied ballet and then encouraged and mentored her brothers and sisters, the children of friends, neighbours and total strangers in all things balletic including choreography and costuming. In fact, Xanthe could fashion a dance outfit, a prop or suitable hairpieces out of absolutely anything.

Tragically, Xanthe was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer on her 30th birthday and despite the best efforts of world-class oncologists she could not be saved and died less than two years later.

Xanthe’s devotion to ballet became a family institution – an inseparable part of the life of her extended family. Two of her siblings went on to the Australian Ballet School and one to the Australian Ballet Company. She also passed her skills in making balletic hairpieces to her sister Jnana, who now has three children at TTJBS .

Jnana has offered to follow in her sister’s footsteps by making and donating floral hairpieces to the students of TTJBS, with the proceeds to fund a scholarship to be awarded by the school.

As a thank you to Jnana for the hair accessory you received today, please donate an amount of your choosing.