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Built for Ballet By Leanne Benjamin Author: Leanne Benjamin
Product Details: ISBN: 9781925556575 Format: Hardback Pages: 400 Dims (mm): 164 x 243 Pub Date: 10-11-21 Pub Country: Australia Condition: NEW
Description: This autobiography by Leanne Benjamin with Sarah Crompton reveals the extraordinary life and career of one of the worldmost important ballet dancers of the past fifty years. The book 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. Itpersonal point of view, how ballet has changed and is changing. Itcreated ballet in its modern form and now she works with the dancers of today, handing on all she has known and learnt. But itpsychology of achievement, how you go from being a child in small town Rockhampton in the centre of Australia to being a power on the worldcopes with the ups and downs of that kind of career. ItFonteyn, Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta to name a few. President Clinton, Michelle Obama, Diana Princess of Wales and David Beckham all make an appearance. But it is also a book of small moments of insight- what makes a performance special, how you recover from injury, illness and child-birth; how you combine athletic and artistic prowess with motherhood, how a different partner can alter everything, what itithuman terms, why women get the reputation for being difficult in a world where being a good girl is too much prized. And what they can do about it.
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