Tag: overstretching

Some of our favorite dancers have the flexibility of a thousand rubber bands, and we won’t deny that some of their gorgeous extensions have us so deep in awe that they’ve easily become #DancerGoals. But despite knowing the importance of stretching—and the ongoing joke in the dance world about wanting to become flexible without stretching—we […]

If you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it a million times: a pic or vid of an über-flexible dancer stretching her enviably limber limbs. She’s got her banana feet jammed between a portable barre and the floor, or a Gumby-esque leg propped impossibly high on a dresser. You’ve probably felt jealous of her wow-worthy flexibility. […]