Hips etc

My dance experience with Dunya , Sufi dancer, goes back decades.
She is a local girl, and we shared a dance teacher, the inestimable Klara Koenig, who took her as a young woman to New York City for auditions.
Dunya is presently living in Woods Hole, and offered a dance meditation series for January, an opportunity I would not miss, and it started yesterday.
I scheduled the ice skating on our pond early so I could skate until my toes and fingers were cold, and then drove down to the little quiet (in the winter) village.
She is recovering from two hip replacements, so we started easy, standing in free movement to her superb music. I love following her, like going to a performance but you don't have to sit still.
What was the problem that she had to have the surgery?
Shallow hip sockets - known also as hip dysplasia, a condition that can make it easier for the ballerina to lift the leg "to the ceiling" with what is known as extension. The doctors told her the dancing had allowed her to continue with normal movement longer than would have otherwise been possible.
Hypermobility of the joints can be a problem - not mine!
Her website www.dancemeditation.org