Dr Rick Maher is a lieutenant colonel in the army and manager of research of the mental and wellbeing branch of the ADF. He is also the founder of the Dance for Veterans program.
In this interview with Elaine Wziontek he explains there are similarities between the army and ballet. When you join the army there is three hours of dance, but it is not called ballet it is a military drill. He also tells her about meeting Li Cunxin, then the artistic director of the Queensland Ballet, whose own story of survival through dance was told in his best-selling memoir and later film, Mao's Last Dancer.
Original broadcast date: 12.11.26
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