Dancing As Exercise
In 1922 she began an interest in the remedial aspects of movement. In 1925 she gave her first lecture demonstration to doctors in London on the remedial possibilities of her exercises. She took acourse at St Thomas' Hospital in Physiotherapy which she passed with distinction in 1930. She had great value in the value of her system for the handicapped, believing that "the more normal you make people feel the normal they would become". She extended her exercises into sports training, writing a book with the tennis star Suzanne Lenglen, and tried to have her methods accepted in schools by the education authorities. Although she achieved only limited acceptance in this area, her influence was immense on the modern practice of physical education, on remedial work, and in choreographic innovation. In 1937, she became a founder member of National Advisory Council of Physical Training and Recreation.
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