Tag: hypermobility

In front of a pitch-black backdrop, Lucy Turner sits with her limbs bent up and crossed in a pretzel-like shape, one arm reaching up and older to clasp her hands around one of her shins. She wears a black and white graphic t-shirt, black shorts, and blue socks.

How Spoon Theory Saved My Dance Career

Navigating the dance space can be difficult for anyone, but doing it while having multiple disabilities—especially when you don’t know what they are—is a whole other ballpark. I’m Lucy Turner, a 24-year-old dance artist based in the UK, and up until my 20s I had no clue I was disabled. Don’t get me wrong—I knew […]

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Ear-grazing développés, 180-degree turnout and a back that folds in half are items on every ballerina’s wish list. But hyper-mobile dancers know extreme flexibility comes at a cost: It takes an incredible amount of strength to keep their joints within a safe range of motion. “You see a lot more hyper-mobile dancers at the student […]

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