Ray & Melinda
When I started dancing many many years ago, I found a joy that I never experienced before. Dancing helped be through the toughest times and several times gave me a purpose when everythings else in my life was going down. I often wondered what I would do if something happened and I ended-up in a wheelchair. What would life be without dancing.
Meeting Ray Leigh and Melinda Kremer, from American Dance Wheels, not only answered that question: I would keep on dancing; but also shed a new light on the purpose behind the dance. It made me realize that in the most dramatic situations, dancing can be a reason to keep on going.
Through my work at Society Hill Dance Academy, I had the opportunity to get trained in wheelchair dancing, both as an able-bodied and an ambulatory-disabled dancer. It’s been one of the most enlightening experience and I can’t wait to help bring more people on the dance-floor both on their feet or on their wheels.
American Dance Wheels is “the home of the first American style wheelchair ballroom and Latin dance program in the world”, and I’m a firm supporter of that cause. SHDA is hosting a benefit event for the association on June 13, stay tuned for more information.
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