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The body of a dancer is tired before it is worn out. The back fails. The adductors fail. The neck muscles are too loose. The neck muscles are too tight. The extension is too low. The extension is never high enough. The body of a dancer has an ache in the right ankle. Or the right big toe. Or maybe the dancer fell and hurt the coccyx and bruised the tail.

“Remember the tail,” says the first dance teacher, trying to get her students to lengthen their backs, to stand up straight. “You still have a tail,” she’ll say to her class of eight-year-olds, “so use it!”