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Burned out: what exhaustion can do to a dancer's body.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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It's an understatement that dancers are hard workers. The profession demands drive, discipline, and perfectionism. But along with these qualities comes a tendency to burn out. Though it's a term that gets thrown around a lot, burnout is a real syndrome with physical and psychological symptoms. Not only can it cause biological changes in your body, it can undermine your growth as a dancer.

"I would have class, rehearsal, and work more than 40 hours a week managing a coffee shop," says Carmen Nicole Smith, who toured China and Germany this year with New York's Battery Dance Company. "For four years I got up at 5 A.M. and I wouldn't go to bed until midnight. Part and parcel of overwork syndrome is the insomnia," says Smith. "I...



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