Dr. Carrie Skony

Guest Faculty, Dance Educators Summit & Summer Intensive

Dr. Carrie Skony is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician®, Dance Medicine provider, and owner of PERFORM Active Wellness + Dance Medicine is Lisle, IL. Being injured as a teenage dancer is what fueled her interest and passion for keeping dancers healthy, and ultimately into a career in Dance Medicine. She has been utilizing a functional rehab and holistic approach to treat pre-professional and professional dancers throughout the Chicago area since 2006. She provides personalized and dance-specific injury assessment and treatment to dancers, injury prevention education, teacher training, and dancer wellness consultation and workshops to dance companies and studios throughout the Midwest. Dr. Skony educates and empowers young dancers to learn how to care for their whole bodies well to inspire long term health and reduce the risk for injuries so they can dance safer, stronger, longer. She is also active in inspiring change within dance companies that supports dancers’ overall health and wellbeing and adapts to emerging dance science. 

Dr. Skony is an active member of the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science, and has studied dance injury treatment and prevention extensively, including through Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU Langone Medical Center. She serves as a consulting physician for several pre-professional and professional companies throughout Chicagoland. Dr. Skony was a nominee for the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science “Dance Educator of the Year Award” in 2020, is an Advisory Board member for Doctors for Dancers, and one of the Founding Members of DanseMedica, a collaboration of dance specialists committed to the health of dancers everywhere.