Tag: sleep

If you’ve led morning classes or rehearsals, you may be familiar with those dancers who enter the studio carrying a coffee from the closest café, or whose floor stretches look, in part, like an excuse to stay horizontal—and perhaps you feel their pain. Denise Warner Limoli is familiar with this scene; she teaches 9 am […]

Dancers can train themselves to do many things—dance on pointe, bust out 32 fouettés, lift other dancers. But can a dancer, or anyone for that matter, train herself to need less sleep? According to sleep expert Dr. Sigrid Veasey, the answer is no. Studies show that people don’t actually adjust to decreased sleep. The deprivation […]