(The Associated Press circulated the following story on September 7.)
NEW YORK — A former Philadanco dancer who lost part of her leg in a train accident will be onstage Sunday in New York City.
Danielle Loustau-Williams is set to perform a piece in which she dances on – and dramatically removes – her artificial leg.
The 21-year-old had her lower leg crushed nearly in January 2001 as she boarded a SEPTA train in Narberth after a dance class.
She was a promising 19-year-old with the Philadelphia Dance Company, known as Philadanco, at the time.
Legal settlements are paying for the five different prosthetic legs Loustau-Williams uses to dance.
She’s also testing a leg – still being developed – that would let her dance “en pointe,” up on her toes.
Loustau-Williams attends Hunter College in New York, where she’s working on a degree in social research.
She says she’d like to keep dancing for ten or 15 years.