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Personal Narrative: My Pursuit Of A Dance Career

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Ballet dancers display lower coping and cognitive skills and higher catastrophizing responses than other athletes (Anderson & Hanrahan, 2008). Ballet is physically and emotionally, an exhausting endeavor. To think that all of one’s hard work and dedication towards the art form could be abruptly snatched away with one injury is devastating. One twist of an ankle could be the end to a dancer’s career. One persisting source of pain could take away the one thing in life that brings you the most joy. Once, in a conference with my ballet school’s principal and associate director, I was told that my back injury could halt my pursuit of a dance career. I immediately started bawling—it was the worst thing I could have ever been informed of. Learning

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