This is the first full week for a limited-time, unique program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. It's offering a free health care clinic for performance artists.
"I believe there are so many performers out there who either are just thinking, o'h, this is part of my life. Art is painful. Art has suffered and this is just what I have to endure,'" UNT Health Science Center Dr. Yein Lee said."I used to think that.""There are so many things I did wrong at that time," Lee said.
"When I started taking care of musicians, dancers...any kind of performing artist, I realized they don't have high-paying jobs and many of them are underinsured and uninsured," Lee said."But what if they have access to health care providers like us, you know?" "Honestly, it gave me a safety net to take risks and trust myself; not just physically in my body, but definitely mentally," former UNT dance student Josie Arsenio said."Knowing that if I had pain, it wouldn't be something long-term."
? Performance artists? How many of them are around? Not just artists but “performance artists”. Ha!
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