Benjamin Strassman is from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he trained at the San Francisco Academy of Ballet and Stapleton School of the Performing Arts. He also spent his summers training at the Royal Danish Ballet School in Copenhagen.
In 2021, Benjamin joined Oregon Ballet Theatre as a member of OBT2 under Artistic Director Dani Rowe and OBT2 director Dominic Walsh. He danced there for three seasons and performed works by choreographers such as George Balanchine, Yuri Possokhov, Christopher Stowell, Dominic Walsh, and Ben Stevenson. While there, he worked with celebrated répétiteurs including former Royal Danish Ballet director Frank Andersen and Eva Kloborg.
In 2024, he joined Nevada Ballet Theatre as a Company Apprentice under Artistic Director Roy Kaiser, performing works by Trey McIntyre, James Canfield, Loughlan Prior, George Balanchine, and DaYoung Jung. Most recently, he also trained with the Orsolina28 Art Foundation in Italy, where he danced works by Pina Bausch.