The Dance Troupe Reveals Their Injuries
Clip: 4/3/2026 | 1m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
The Graham dancers let loose with a laundry of list of injuries that have befallen them.
With a bit of a pained smile of their face, the Graham dancers let loose with a laundry of list of injuries that have befallen them throughout their professional dance careers.
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The Dance Troupe Reveals Their Injuries
Clip: 4/3/2026 | 1m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
With a bit of a pained smile of their face, the Graham dancers let loose with a laundry of list of injuries that have befallen them throughout their professional dance careers.
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My injuries have been so many.
I've had a couple of small ones.
Was it a couple?
Maybe a little more.
Start at the bottom and work your way up.
Got a heel spur.
[non-english speech] Shattered my sesamoid, torn.
Multiple ligaments in my right foot.
Tendonitis.
Fractured my foot.
[non-english speech] Fifth metatarsal, sliced it right down the middle.
The dancer's fracture.
Recently, I sprained my big toe.
It's not great.
You need your big toe.
Sprained my foot.
I was out of dance for two weeks.
Displacement of the kneecap due to tightness in my quad, pulling it out of whack.
[non-english speech] Strained my meniscus.
Meniscus surgery.
Pulled my hamstrings a couple times.
Take a long time to recover.
Pulled my abductor.
[non-english speech] Sciatica going down the leg.
Two cortisone shots for that.
[non-english speech] Crack my tailbone.
Broke-- My arms.
Elbows.
Ankles, both legs.
Dislocated my knee.
Eight times with full reconstructive labrum surgery.
Clicky right now.
Whiplash a decent amount of times.
Back spasms.
Neck spasms, where a disk has shifted.
Causing my spine to curve the wrong way.
[non-english speech] A herniated disk.
L5-S1 lower back.
Base of my spine.
I was out for an entire year with that one.
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