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an athlete who hides the agony under a smile and calls it grace.
means a person who moves their body rhythmically, usually to music, whether as art, sport, or sheer joy.
from From the verb 'dance,' which English borrowed in the medieval period from Old French 'dancier' — a word of murky parentage. One leading guess traces it to a Frankish root meaning to stretch or pull (as in a line of people drawn taut in a chain dance), but honestly, where 'dance' itself was born remains a genuine mystery. The '-er' is the plain old English suffix that turns a doing into a doer: one who dances.
- force load
- Pointe pressure can hit twelve times body weight
- calorie burn
- Pros torch what a marathoner does
- brain wiring
- Dancing rewires the brain against dementia
- old origins
- Cave art shows dancing 9,000 years ago
misty copeland — first black female principal dancer at american ballet theatre, 2015
mikhail baryshnikov — soviet defector, principal dancer new york city ballet, 1960s-1970s
alvin ailey — founded alvin ailey american dance theater in los angeles, 1958