I have personally been involved with a professional ballet dancer and dance teacher and have seen the pleasure and excitement felt by those children, who just want to be a ballerina. This is a great news story that deserves to be shared, and I hope it opens some studio doors in Australia, to follow suit.
Daily Life – University of South Queensland
July 6, 2015 – 10:01am
Rob Moran
It’s a wonderful scene: 19 young kids with physical disability, living their dreams, swirling around in tutus at New York’s most prestigious dance company, like a bunch of prima ballerinas. And it all started with a heartfelt email from a mum, who was tired of seeing her daughter miss out.
The story’s the latest inspiring tearjerker to be given the Upworthy video treatment. Grab the tissues, and prepare to spontaneously high-five whoever the heck’s sitting next to you right now.
In the video, mother Natalia Armoza – whose daughter Pearl was born with cerebral palsy – describes what initially led her to reach out to the New York City Ballet, about creating a dance program for children with special needs.
“There were movement programs for children to dance with dancers from The New York City Ballet, and I really would have loved to have done one of those with Pearl. But I didn’t want her to be the focus of other people’s stares or comments, and I wanted to really protect her from that,” she says.
Her idea? To email the Ballet, on the off-chance they’d be willing to hear out her suggestion. read more…
There are currently 60 people on an ‘exclusion register’ banned from working with people in disability care in Victoria. Photo: Glenn Hunt
