I know I’ll be anxious to start again, still feeling largely disconnected from my body, having lost a lot of my turn-out, flexibility, cardio endurance, and strength. I know I’ll have to work hard to bring myself back to the body I used to use in my regular practice and will have to get used to training regularly again mentally and physically. But I also know that this feeling of dissociation I feel with my body is informed by a lot of lies we’ve been fed as dancers, as human beings in a pandemic. And now is the time to be expunging them from our muscle memories.

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