A dance injury last Thursday led to the indefinite closure of the Ida Noyes Hall Dance Room, one of the most used dance spaces for RSOs. The dance room, located in the basement of Ida Noyes, had been ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. Breaking has been around for more than 50 years, but the dancing sport with its roots in hip-hop culture has been ...

Professional dance is a high-performance discipline that carries significant risks of injury and physical wear.

Ballet is an art of illusion: dancers seem to float across the stage and, in their leaps, appear to defy gravity for a moment ...

Objectives To describe the epidemiology of injuries in an elite vocational ballet school over 7 academic years. Methods Injury records pertaining to 569 students (267 boys and 302 girls) were ...

A tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is often associated with a popping sound, a giving way and the nauseating feeling that something really bad just happened to one’s knee. When it happens ...

In theater, “break a leg” is a phrase used to wish a performer luck. But for ballet dancers, it isn’t simply an expression but an occupational reality. The intense physical demands of ballet put ...

Dancers put unique demands on their hips, achieving extreme ranges of motion that can strain the joints and damage supporting tissues around them. Not surprisingly, hip injuries account for up to 17% ...

Background Injuries present an important health problem in hip hop dance and there are a lack of studies investigating preventive measures in that sport. Objective we hypothesized that significantly ...

Darcy Lei, D.O., focuses on dance and performing arts health care in UC Health’s Department of Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine. A former pre-professional ballerina, she knows the day-to-day injury ...

It was an action-packed Tuesday night for Marvel star Xochitl Gomez on Dancing With the Stars after she appeared to injure herself during a dance, but still managed to perform again and ended the ...