--- title: How a French Dancer Rebuilt Her Career After Injury description: "I just knew that was it. I just had to be a dancer." canonical: https://time.com/3952163/dance-injury-broadway-career-brooklyn/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-09T22:11:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:10.856Z og:title: How a French Dancer Rebuilt Her Career After Injury og:description: "I just knew that was it. I just had to be a dancer." og:url: https://time.com/3952163/dance-injury-broadway-career-brooklyn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt272276f11b39f226/69885a55e20a87a4c3a8c3b8/screen-shot-2015-07-09-at-6-06-28-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-07-09 at 6.06.28 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How a French Dancer Rebuilt Her Career After Injury twitter:description: "I just knew that was it. I just had to be a dancer." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt272276f11b39f226/69885a55e20a87a4c3a8c3b8/screen-shot-2015-07-09-at-6-06-28-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How a French Dancer Rebuilt Her Career After Injury by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 9, 2015 10:11 PM UTC  by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 9, 2015 10:11 PM UTC Dancer Karine Newborn knew she wanted to be a professional dancer since watching her mother dance as a little girl in Paris. Her career as a dancer took a sharp turn though after suffering an injury while performing on Broadway. The single mother and dancer found herself unable to continue her career as a dancer, putting her in a financial bind. Newborn used the money she received from a settlement to open her own dance studio, Brooklyn Dance Project, and start an after-school dance program. “To me making it is not being a big star and being a big name,” says Newborn. “I just love the craft.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3952163/dance-injury-broadway-career-brooklyn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3952163/dance-injury-broadway-career-brooklyn/"},"headline":"How a French Dancer Rebuilt Her Career After Injury","datePublished":"2015-07-09T22:11:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:10.856Z","description":"\"I just knew that was it. I just had to be a dancer.\"","url":"https://time.com/3952163/dance-injury-broadway-career-brooklyn/","keywords":["Living","dance","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt272276f11b39f226/69885a55e20a87a4c3a8c3b8/screen-shot-2015-07-09-at-6-06-28-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt272276f11b39f226/69885a55e20a87a4c3a8c3b8/screen-shot-2015-07-09-at-6-06-28-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-07-09 at 6.06.28 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3952163/dance-injury-broadway-career-brooklyn/","name":"How a French Dancer Rebuilt Her Career After Injury"}}]}] ```