Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Student dancers getting their hair up for a ballet number set off the fire alarm at a New Zealand theater, forcing a brief evacuation. About 1,500 people were in the building for the Maureen Ax School of Dance show Sunday night when the alarm went off, the Manawatu Standard reported. Advertisement Maureen Ax said 20 students had just completed a hip-hop number with their hair down and were frantically trying to re-arrange their tresses into proper ballet buns. The result was a cloud of hairspray. "The kids were getting ready for the next act and they actually had their hair down for the previous dance ... so they had been furiously spraying their hair to get it back into the right place," Ax said. Ax described the students, some only 4 years old, as "seasoned troupers." The 200 young dancers involved in the production filed out of the building, which was completely emptied within 3 minutes, waited outside for the all clear and then went on with the show.
