Lightness is the famously elusive quality that can make a dancer seem to float on air. But as with all things dance, what looks like pure ease onstage takes an incredible amount of effort behind the scenes. “It’s the proverbial carrot that I dangle for my patients,” says Melissa Buffer, a Boston-area physical therapist who works with dancers and other performing artists. “I tell them we’re doing all these exercises and all this work, but the cumulative effect will be that aesthetic quality of lightness.”
September 28, 2021 — By Chava Pearl Lansky
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