Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot The Strength of a Dancer Marion  Barbeau, the principal dancer at the Paris Opera doesn’t complain. She has a goal and she moves forward. In 2022, the French film Rise (En Corps) starred her story – a dancer’s transformation after a serious injury –which attracted 1.5 million viewers in three months.  The public recognized something worthy in the story of this ballerina who injured her ankle and had to interrupt her career, undergo rehabilitation for two years, and regain her momentum, …