Losing her hearing was supposed to be the hardest part of her dance career...

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Her dance partner – her best friend, the love of her life – dying onstage did not even enter her wildest nightmares.

Now forced to leave her elite New York ballet school, talented and Deaf dancer Rayona Hummel is starting over on he other side of the country at the Arthur Leone School of Ballet. Rayona must confront the fears she has been running from since the accident. As she struggles with anxiety around stepping back onto the ballet stage, new friends and a few miscallaneous drag artists try to help her remember the joy they all found in dance. Past having to prove herself in a world that strives for complete perfection, Rayona's future as a ballerina has only one thing in the way: herself.

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Dance Academy x The Year After You