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Lynn is the founder and principal of Lynn Fahey School of Dance (LFSD), and Samantha her second-in-command. Each Saturday they run classical ballet, jazz and tap lessons in Burwood, Enfield and Croydon. It takes four studios, ten regular teachers, and an eight-and-a-half hour day to contain all their classes, and they act as chauffeurs, counsellors, diplomats, and seamstresses, as well as teachers. So I’m not surprised that, when I ask how they’re feeling, ‘tired’ is at the top of their list.

‘But otherwise,’ Lynn says with a grin, ‘looking forward to the chocolate!’

It was Lynn’s idea to meet at Chocolates Del Mondo, partially for the convenience – it’s a short walk from LFSD’s two Burwood studios – but mostly for the chocolate. The fondue we order comes with pillowy marshmallows, crisp

LFSD wasn’t the beginning of Lynn and Samantha’s journey together. They first met at the Sydney Dance Development Centre (SDDC) in 1993, where Lynn was Samantha’s teacher and Samantha was, by Lynn’s account, ‘a cute little thing’.

‘Everything would say she shouldn’t be able to do dancing,’ Lynn recalls. ‘She had turned in feet, bones that were broken or breaking, all sorts. But contrary to other kids who were quite talented but used to chuck tantrums, Samantha just tried her little heart out all the time.’

Samantha, who was six at the time, has no qualms about declaring Lynn her favourite teacher at SDDC. ‘She always had a smile on her face, and the class was always fun,’ she explains. ‘I was never put in a position where I felt that my physical issues were a negative, so I wanted to be 

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