When Catherine Wreford found out that she had brain cancer in June 2013, with doctors predicting she had only two to six years left to live, there was one thing she knew she wanted to do: dance. She had grown up training in the recreational division at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, then went on […]

Maggie Kudirka was just beginning her ballet career with the Joffrey Concert Group in New York when she discovered an ache and a knot in her sternum that would not go away. It became excruciating. The company physical therapist gave her exercises and massages to assuage the pain. “I just thought it was a muscle […]