Special Focus on Continued Learning
The Pregnant Dancer
Is there a ‘good time’ to fall pregnant as a freelance dancer? Chloe Hillyar, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast, seeks to establish the first best practice charter of dance-specific physical activity that defines an upper-safe limit for pregnant, professional dancers in the context of contemporary dance training and performance in the UK and Ireland dance sectors. Here, she offers an insight into some of her research findings.
Photo: Amy Morvell
KJ Mortimer
34 The One Dance UK Magazine | Spring 2023