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In Music as Well as Sports, Injuries Can End a Career

[A] psychological drive toward perfection undoubtedly lies close behind many a musician’s physical problem.

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When Rips, Tears and Falls Kill a Dancer’s Career (or Don’t)

A dancer who sustains a showstopping fracture onstage needn’t automatically hang up her tights.

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For Artists and Musicians, Creativity Can Mean Illness and Injury

Surveys of musicians and artists have revealed virtual epidemics of occupationally induced ills, from crippled hands that practiced too hard to outright poisoning and severe allergies provoked by the materials used to create artworks.

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How Lorenza Bottner’s Prescient Art Created Space for Disabled and Trans People

At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, it was an artist heretofore unknown to much of the art world who stole the show: Lorenza Böttner, a German painter, dancer, and performance artist who, in the ’80s and ’90s, began...

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Can Traumatic Experiences Make You More Creative?

Can increased creativity be a coping strategy for dealing with trauma?

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Jon Sarkin: When Brain Injuries Transform into Art

Jon Sarkin was working as a chiropractor when he suffered a massive stroke. Afterwards, the 35-year-old became a volatile visual artist with a ferocious need to create, as his brain tried to make sense of the world at large.

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The Mystery of Why Some People Become Sudden Geniuses

There’s mounting evidence that brain damage has the power to unlock extraordinary creative talents. What can this teach us about how geniuses are made?

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‘Take My Brain Out’: The Artists Awakened by Brain Injuries

Thirty extraordinary artists who survived brain injuries, but found a new craft, are exhibiting their work in London this month, many for the first time.

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