Leanne Benjamin AM OBE | an excerpt from her diary in 1981 when she won a gold medal at the Genée

Leanne Benjamin was born in Rockhampton, Australia. At 16 she joined The Royal Ballet School and won the RAD’s Adeline Genée gold medal in 1981. Leanne joined Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet in 1983, English National Ballet in 1988 and the Deutsche Oper Ballet Berlin in 1990 before joining the Royal Ballet in 1992 at Kenneth MacMillan’s invitation, where she performed as a principal dancer for 21 years.

Join us for the first-ever online final of the renamed competition – The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition 2021.

This must-see digital event takes place on Thursday 9 September at 7.30pm BST and will be hosted by RAD President, Dame Darcey Bussell, and RAD Artistic Director, Gerard Charles. The evening will celebrate 15 finalists, selected from 97 applicants from across the globe. As they demonstrate their hard work and achievements in dance, they will also compete for the coveted gold, silver, and bronze medals, in a competition like none we’ve seen before.

www.royalacademyofdance.org/thefonteyn #Fonteyn2021

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