#25 How do you navigate the dance world with scoliosis?

Yukie has a double curve S-shaped-scoliosis. She was bullied as a kid, told by her doctor that she would be in a wheelchair by the age of 16, told by the director of her dance academy that she would never be a dancer but she chose to travel from the Netherlands to America to make her dream come true.

Today, she has to navigate the dance's world with its "being straight" standard, face the ignorance of many people and the emotional challenges of being a dancer but she wouldn't trade that life for anything.

Mentioned in this episode:
• The National Ballet Academy of Amsterdam
• corset / brace
• Pilates, Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis
• rods (implanted to treat scoliosis)
• Yuko Giannakis
• Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
• Codarts
• The Ailey School
• Amala Dianor
• Trigger point therapy

Yukie gives Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis classes in Amsterdam at Full Circle Studio and online. You can contact her at yukiespruyt@gmail.com.