Three Travel Tips: Fly Like a Professional Dancer

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.29.07 | 12:38 PM ET

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For professional dancers, Mark Morris Dance Group member David Leventhal writes in the New York Times, “air travel is a bitter enemy.” Their jobs require movement, and being on a long flight means feeling “like caged tigers.”

To cope, Leventhal revealed some tricks of his trade, which are applicable to amateur dancers, those who live in fear of deep vein thrombosis and anyone who gets antsy on a long flight.

1) Drink as though you’ll “never see water again.”

2) Do “deep pliés in front of the gawking flight crew.”

3) Pace “the aisles like an air marshal.” Leventhal says he does it “even wearing my often-mocked stirrup tights. It’s better than nothing, but barely.”

Photo by jeff medaugh, via Flickr (Creative Commons).