Category: Aging
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Reuniting with Dance Friends by Jennifer DeLuca
I don’t know what it is about 2025 but all of the people that made me who I am keep showing up and I am so here for it! I shared a conversation with a friend recently asking why this coming together feels so good and I think we both realized that in high school,…
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Dancing With My Children
When my daughter was small enough to fit on my lap – able to hold up her head and sit up but not yet walk away from me – I would play music and move her legs and arms up and down to the beat. I wanted her to hear the rhythm, to feel it…
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“Ballet for the Older Body” by Andrea Webber
“Ballet for the Older Body” by Andrea Webber I am a retired staff physician from a busy city hospital in the Bronx and in two weeks’ time I shall be 79 years of age. Over a decade ago, I left the intensity and art of medicine for the intensity and art of the barre. My local…