December 2, 2022 njads
Nancy at 64, started ballet at 55. “I started ballet in my fifties after fracturing my spine and sternum in a fall,” Taylor wrote on Facebook. “My surgeon diagnosed me with advanced Osteoporosis and told me that I would never lead an active lifestyle again. When a ballet studio opened just across the road from my home, I took it as a sign that I might have a chance to heal myself. I limped into the studio on a cane and told the instructor that if she helped me get my leg up on the bar, that I would learn ballet. She did, and on that day my life would be changed forever.”