Leanne Benjamin

Leanne Benjamin is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.

Born in Rockhampton, Australia in 1964 [ [http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/6081.html Australia Dancing - Benjamin, Leanne (1964 - ) ] ] , she trained at the Royal Ballet School and won the Adeline Genée Gold Medal and Prix de Lausanne. She joined the Company in 1992 becoming a Principal by the spring of that Season. She has also been a Principal with Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and Deutsche Opera Ballet.

Repertory

Odette/Odile, Giselle, Sugar Plum Fairy, Aurora, Nikiya, Kitri, Swanilda, Firebird, Cinderella, Lise, Titania, Manon, Anastasia, Juliet (Ashton and MacMillan), Mitzi Caspar and Mary Vetsera, Irina, Girl (The Invitation), The Judas Tree, Song of the Earth, Gloria, Requiem, Rhapsody, Elite Syncopations, Les Biches, Symphony in C, Apollo, Danses concertantes, Etudes, Brünnhilde (Béjart's Ring), Carmen, Herman Schmerman and The Leaves Are Fading.

She has created roles in Bintley's Metamorphosis, The Snow Queen and Earth as part of Homage to The Queen, Bruce's Symphony in Three Movements and in Mr Worldly Wise, Two-Part Invention, When We Stop Talking, Masquerade and most recently Wayne McGregor's Qualia, Robert Garland's Spring Rites, Alastair Marriott's Tanglewood, Liam Scarlett's Despite and Wheeldon's DGV. She was awarded an OBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours.

She is married to Tobias Round, manager of the Donmar Warehouse and has a son, Thomas, born in the summer of 2003.

References

External links

* [http://info.royaloperahouse.org/ballet/index.cfm?ccs=247&cs=108 Principal of the Royal Ballet from royaloperahouse.org]
* [http://www.ballet.co.uk/links/dancers_rb_principals.htm Royal Ballet principals at ballet.co.uk]
* [http://www.primeart.gr/uk/ARTISTS/lbenjamin.htm CV at primeart.gr]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp15416&rNo=0&role=sit Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery]