The spotlight is waiting for West Somerset dancer Noah Morgan, 15, who will be taking to the stage in Dublin on July 13, representing Team England to compete in the international Dance World Cup.

And on the same day Noah, who lives near Bishop’s Lydeard and attends Kingsmead Academy in Wiveliscombe, will also find out if he is through to the next stage of the UK Young Dancer Theatre competition, with finals at the Royal Opera House in London.

“It is exciting, you get used to it, but I can’t get rid of the nerves, The adrenaline rush always helps,” said Noah.

He is no stranger to dance success, having last year been a triple silver medal soloist at the Dance World Cup in Spain, and runner-up in the prestigious UK Young Dancer competition.

Noah started dancing at the age of four, when his mother put him in a lesson for youngsters after he wanted to join his older sister’s dance class.

“He just took to it, although he was teased badly when he was younger and gave up ballet for a year, doing more ‘acceptable’ styles of hip hop and street dancing,” said his mother Lucy Campbell-Morgan, who drives him to classes every day of the week.

Said Noah: “Mum is my number one supporter, she drives me all over the country, or in other countries, she’s always there waiting for me.”

These days, Noah find other youngsters are really supportive, especially his close friends, and doing ballet and other forms of dancing is “not an issue in the slightest.”

He takes classes in ballet, tap, modern and contemporary dance four days a week locally, at Trull School of Dancing and Merge Dance Company. He goes to London most Saturdays for a course at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and also does a weekly gymnastics class.

Once a month Noah works with dance theatre company Project Dance, and will be joining them for two weeks on a summer tour in different parts of the UK.

When Noah gave up ballet for a time, he was supported in getting back into it by his karate instructor, who had himself been a dancer. Now Noah, who is a karate black belt, still finds time to train further in the martial art once a week, as well as help some of the younger students.

He said he would “love to become a professional dancer in the future, or do musical theatre – anything in the performing arts.”

For the next few years, though, he will concentrate on his A levels, then look into going to dance college.

Where Noah’s love of dance comes from, his mother Lucy has no idea. She said his older sister still dances with her university squad, while his younger brother Zephaniah is also doing dancing, and she and Noah’s father Matt Morgan are kept busy doing the taxi-ing.

Lucy, and Noah’s grandmother, aunt and uncle, will all be in Dublin to cheer him on.