MOVING AID: DANCERCARE.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--Dancers are often too poor to pay for health insurance and "they're notorious for thinking they are invincible," says Robin Staff, codirector of Pink Ribbons Project, Dancers in Motion for Breast Cancer. That's why Staff and her codirectors decided it wasn't enough simply to educate dancers on breast cancer awareness. They've initiated an emergency breast cancer fund, called Dancercare, that picks up the tab when dancers can't afford a mammogram mammogram /mam·mo·gram/ (mam´o-gram) a radiograph of the breast. mam·mo·gram n. An x-ray image of the breast produced by mammography. . Dancercare is being administered in conjunction with Cancer Care, a national nonprofit social service agency that has been helping people cope with cancer since 1944. Like Cancer Care, Dancercare comes to the aid of needy dancers anywhere in the country, providing funds for medical consultations and therapy fees, home- and child-care, transportation costs, and even the airfare to get to a mother or sister recuperating from breast cancer surgery. The fund was announced last November at Pink Ribbons' fourth annual fund-raising concert in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . At that event, as well as at others sponsored by the project (including a Dancercare Day scheduled for this October), dancers and choreographers This is a list of choreographers A
According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the directors of Pink Ribbons Project, it is important to target dancers because the majority are female and they are usually so physically fit that they often don't think they are at risk for developing disease. That, coupled with low pay and underinsured un·der·in·sure tr.v. un·der·in·sured, un·der·in·sur·ing, un·der·in·sures To insure under a policy that provides inadequate benefits: Be certain that you are not underinsured against catastrophic illness. conditions, creates a situation whereby dancers may be more apt to ignore health problems. The hope is that with Dancercare, dancers won't feel as if they've pirouetted themselves into a corner. For information, call Pink Ribbons Project at (212) 727-0784, or Cancer Care at (800) 813-HOPE (4673) or (212) 221-3300. |
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