NY Daily News - Tiler Peck goes from ballerina in recovery to ballerina in isolation (and Instagram celebrity)

In a way, Tiler Peck spent half a year preparing for the pandemic. She just didn’t know it.

Peck, a nimble New York City Ballet star, spent the spring and summer sidelined from dance, and virtually all exercise, due to a severe herniated disk.

From April through August, she waited for her irritated spinal cushion to heal, enduring the agony of inactivity and hoping for a return to the stage at the end of the tunnel.

“It was horrible,” Peck told the Daily News. “It was six months of absolutely nothing.”

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