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Dance’s Injury Problem (Why Does It Have To Be This Way?)

DANCE Posted: January 24, 2014 2:08 pm

“Ballet has for centuries been taught by its high priests like a sacred mystery, shut off from medical analysis of its principles. Given the horrendously high rate of injury it seems to entail (mostly related to repetitive strain rather than sudden accident), isn’t it time that a comprehensive review, informed by modern physiology, was made of its theories and practices?”

DANCE Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The Telegraph (UK) Published: 01.23.14

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