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Tina LeBlanc: how I learned to accept my body and dance on.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tina LeBlanc: how I learned to accept my body and dance on.(REDEFINING BEAUTY)

Article Excerpt
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For the past 16 years San Francisco Ballet audiences have delighted in Tina LeBlanc's vibrant, scintillating dancing in a variety of roles (see "The Natural," March '06). She began her professional career 26 years ago with the Joffrey Ballet to almost immediate acclaim. But she's quick to point out that she wasn't born with the ideal ballet body. Rather than dwell on what she doesn't have, she highlights what she does. Here she tells Dance Magazine's Khara Hanlon hoe her body image has challenged her and how she's moved beyond her own obsessions.

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My first teacher was very matter of fact. If somebody got too heavy she would tell them. She didn't soften the blow at all. Even if it wasn't directed to me then, I was very aware of that issue from a young age.

When I was 14 or 15, I auditioned for the SAB summer course. On the bottom of my acceptance letter there was a little handwritten note saying that I should...

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