New York Times - A Ballerina’s Nightmare: ‘Am I More Than Just a Dancer?’
Tiler Peck, the New York City Ballet star, suffered a debilitating neck injury. We follow her arduous path back to the stage in advance of “Swan Lake.”
One morning last spring Tiler Peck woke up, but she wasn’t the same Tiler Peck. She didn’t recognize herself. She couldn’t.
“I was afraid to use my eyeballs to look because I was in so much pain,” she said.
On April 23 — she has been keeping a journal — she was diagnosed with a severe herniated disc in her neck. Doctors couldn’t pinpoint exactly how it happened. During the past five or six years, Ms. Peck, a New York City Ballet principal, had experienced a stiff neck from time to time, but this was different.
