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    Margaret Mercer

    Jul 24, 2019 2 minutes

    What was your dance training?

    I started ballet classes the year I turned eight after seeing the Borovansky company at His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth, and being totally spellbound by everything about it.

    Evelyn Hodgkinson was my first teacher. I had no idea what a ballet class was like; I expected to start the class in the centre of the room and leap and twirl about like the dancers

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