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BalletMet’s Rachael Parini Opens Up About Living With Bipolar 1 Disorder, and Her Triumphant Return to Dance

BalletMet’s Rachael Parini Opens Up About Living With Bipolar 1 Disorder, and Her Triumphant Return to Dance

by Rachael Parini as told to Linnea Swarting | Oct 11, 2023 | Career, Profiles

In the summer of 2022, BalletMet dancer Rachael Parini began to experience symptoms of bipolar disorder, a mental health condition characterized by episodes of mania or hypomania and depression. Parini was diagnosed with bipolar 1, which is determined following a...
BalletMet Dancer Rachael Parini's Road from Company Life to College and Back

BalletMet Dancer Rachael Parini's Road from Company Life to College and Back

by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 2, 2020 | Company Life, Higher Ed, Instagram, Profiles

Many young dancers see the choice to attend college or pursue a career as clear-cut, but Rachael Parini’s unusual course has proved that’s not the case. At 32, her career has been full of restarts. But looking back, the BalletMet dancer wouldn’t...
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