Every July, Disability Pride Month honors the strength, resilience, and achievements of people living with disabilities — and among those who inspire thousands is Chelsie Hill. After a spinal cord ...
Walking into the Dearborn 2024 Para Dance Sport USA Open you are greeted by brightly colored, bedazzled uniforms, stage lights and a collection of wheelchair dancers who are either fine tuning their ...
On Aug. 10 and 11, three wheelchair ballroom dancers from the Madison area traveled to Michigan to compete in the United States' first sanctioned World Para Dance Sport wheelchair ballroom dance ...
Chelsie always dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. That goal could have come to an end when she became paralyzed in high school, but instead she started her very own world-touring wheelchair ...
Two dancers move across the stage in various forms, each supporting the other, movements choreographed expertly. The two dancers show emotions with a glow from inside. It’s clear that they are ...
On a cold fall day at the Patchogue Family YMCA, Dan Lumley and his daughter, Emily, practiced the dance they would perform at her wedding. It was a moment that both believed might never happen, after ...
MUSEUM OF ART ON MILLS AVENUE. NOW TO A STORY OF A WOMAN’S PASSION TO CONTINUE TO CHASE HER DREAM, NO MATTER THE ODDS. CHELSEA HILL LOVES TO DANCE, AND SHE DOES IT FROM HER WHEELCHAIR. WESH 2’S ...
When Chelsie Hill dances in her wheelchair, her face tells you everything. She is absorbed in the moment beyond the stage, in the emotions she’s conveying, in her power to hold the audience. Her ...
Just try not to smile. Mayli Gibson is six years old and loves to dance in her wheelchair. Courtesy Sami Gibson — -- Six-year-olds Mayli and Brooklyn might be in wheelchairs, but it's not slowing ...
A groom with multiple sclerosis, who has depended on a wheelchair for five years to get around, shocked friends and family when he stood up — and danced for the first time with his bride. Father of ...
Performances in N.Y.C. A new work by Axis Dance Company, “Kinematic/Kinesthetic,” uses mobility technologies to reshape ideas about moving and about the devices ...