Built for Ballet with Leanne Benjamin at Kensington Central Library
Join us at the library for this fascinating story of the extraordinary life and career of one of the most important ballet.
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Free
Leanne Benjamin's recent autobiography, Built for Ballet, takes you behind the scenes to find a real understanding of the pleasure and the pain, the demands and the intense commitment it requires to become a ballet dancer. It is a book for ballet-lovers which will explain from Benjamin’s personal point of view, how ballet has changed and is changing.
In this talk, Leanne will tell us about it as a book of history: she was first taught by the people who created ballet in its modern form and now she works with the dancers of today, handing on all she has known and learnt. Her book is also for people who are just interested in the psychology of achievement, how you go from being a child in small-town Rockhampton in the centre of Australia to being a power on the world’s biggest stages - and how an individual copes with the ups and downs of that kind of career.
Leanne Benjamin, OBE, AM, is a highly acclaimed and award- winning dancer, who was a principal ballerina with Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin and ultimately a principal for 20 years with the Royal Ballet.