It's a Dancer Thing You Wouldn't Understand
Dancers train through injuries that would put most people on the sofa, and rarely mention it.
One design for this subject, on a Unisex Standard T-Shirt. If more appear in the same line they will show up here.
Dancers train through injuries that would put most people on the sofa, and rarely mention it.
Hobby designs tend to carry the vocabulary of the craft, which is exactly what makes them land with people inside it and mean nothing to everyone else. The one design here keeps the wording plain.
If it will be worn while actually doing the dancer, pick a darker colour — these shirts meet dust, water or dye sooner than most.
For someone whose dancer takes up real weekends rather than an occasional afternoon. The joke claims membership, so it only reads properly on someone who has earned the claim.
Ballet, contemporary, ballroom and street are different disciplines with different training and different bodies. Dancers identify by form, not by the word.
The injuries are constant and quietly managed, which audiences never see.
The hours in a studio for a few minutes on stage is the ratio nobody outside it grasps.
The wording only works when it names the exact craft, so it is worth checking before you buy. Drone, Fishing and Flute each have their own page with their own designs, and there are more below.