About our Adaptive & Wheelchair Dance Program

 

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Our program is a NON competitive, affordable adaptive & wheelchair dance program with many benefits. This health and wellness movement program teaches basic dancing styles. Adaptive dancing styles include ballroom, cha, cha, bop, tango, liturgical, line hand dance and hip hop. Each class last 4-6 weeks long  and the Instructors are certified to teach adaptive and wheelchair dance. The volunteers are also trained.  A few of the many benefits of this program is that it is a great healing tool for those who suffer from PTSD,   it reduces stress, increases energy, muscle tone and coordination, it provides a positive social, emotional and physical impact, reduces social isolation, builds self confidence and failure free. This program supports synchronized dancing (able-bodied dancers and wheelchair users as partners), duo-dance (two wheelchair users) freestyle dancing (able bodied and wheelchair users dance rhythmically to songs/music. This one of its kind program in the Greater Washington DC area has its participants in a whirlwind of happiness as we focus on the abilities of the participants, not the disabiltiies. Individuals with varying levels of abilties can particpate with our without a wheelchair. Our classes are adapted to our participants.