This week’s profile is of Krishna, who in addition to being a dancer herself, taught a ballet basics class to visually impaired women in NYC at Visions at Selis Manor last summer and teaches ballet to her sports medicine clients.
This photo was taken by Chinese photojournalist Lijie Zhang as part of a photo essay about Krishna last summer.
When did you start doing ballet as an adult?
I had always been a ballet dancer, however while I was a college student, I developed a very aggressive form of glaucoma and lost a significant portion of my sight. I was too afraid to dance at all for years. When I finally got up the courage to begin dancing again, it took me over a year to find a teacher who felt comfortable even having a visually impaired dancer in the classroom. I have been studying seriously again for the past two years.
