Saturday, October 10, 2015

Jennie Somogi: Courageous Dancer

During her career at New York City Ballet, Jennie Somogyi, a dancer prized for her steely strength and lush musicality, has sustained just three injuries, but they’ve been whoppers. By now, she knows what it means when she hears the dreaded pop of a tendon. The most recent one occurred during the Russian dance in a 2013 performance of “Swan Lake” and affected the same tendon, in her left foot, that she had torn years before.

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