Benji Reid, Britain’s rising star of freestyle “body popping”, text and rap performance, is one of the success stories to emerge from Manchester’s culturally diverse showcase event, X-Trax. Having recently returned to the UK after a sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House Studios in March, he bounded into the X-Trax offices to thank the festival’s director, Maggie Clarke, for opening up the opportunity.
‘He’s been doing really well, so we’re so glad we’ve got Benji in [this year’s X-Trax] showcase because he’s one of the success stories,’ Clarke enthuses, who introduced Reid to a representative from the Sydney Opera House in Manchester last summer, which resulted in an invitation to perform and host workshops at the Australian venue.
