[2] The following year, she auditioned for the American Ballet Theatre summer program again, but was rejected as artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov was not considering recruiting short girls.
At the time, the company was based in New York but toured extensively, and she soon received nationwide attention and critical acclaim.
[2] At the company, she danced full-length classics such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and works by George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, Helgi Tómasson, Christopher Wheeldon, Lar Lubovitch and Julia Adam.
[3] Starting in 1999, LeBlanc took part in photographer Lucy Gray's long-term photography project alongside fellow San Francisco Ballet principal dancers Katita Waldo and Kristin Long, about their experiences as dancers and mothers.
The project lasted fourteen years, and the photographs were published in the 2015 book Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers.
[7][8] In 2000, she won the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Individual Performance for her work that entire season with the San Francisco Ballet.
[4][5] In her final performance, she danced Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Theme and Variations, Lubovitch's My Funny Valentine and Tómasson's Sonata.
Garcia, who had since joined the New York City Ballet, returned to dance Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux with her.