Mother and performer: the ultimate juggling act

Discussion about work-life balance for young parents typically focus on business types battling to get to the childcare centre on time. But there are no child care services that cover tour commitments or evening performances.
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 Having three kids within three years would take a toll on any mother but add in a dancer’s physical regime and the complexity of a performer’s hours and life can become very complex.

Former Australian Ballet principal dancer Olivia Bell spent four and a half years  balancing her roles of mother and dancer but towards the end things became ‘too difficult’.

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Esther Levy-Fenner
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Esther Levy-Fenner is a Melbourne journalist.