Leanne Benjamin and I got to know one another at The Royal Ballet in 2001 in Monica Mason’s coaching and rehabilitation class. I was very new to the company but had a chronic ankle problem and as I recall Leanne was also recovering from a foot or ankle niggle.
Aside from Monica’s great care and expertise it was Leanne’s down to earth approach and her resilient and cheerful personality which helped to pull me through the hard slog of rehabilitation.
Many in Perth have an the opportunity recently to see Leanne dancing in West Australian Ballet’s gala. For those who are not familiar with her, this is her biography on the Australia Dancing website http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/6081.html. Coming up soon is the interview I conducted with Leanne this year…
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