Wheelchair Dancing

Graham Mackenzie

Message 11874 · 30 Apr 1998 01:03:05 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

At 09:21 29/4/98 -0300, Pat Kent wrote:
>Malcomb wrote that their group had people in wheelchair dancing.
>I know of a group of sqaure dancers here in Nova Scotia that are all in
>chairs and dance every week. I also had a cousin in England who did SCD
>in a wheel chair for many years. To me there is no reason that the
>disabled cannot dance. ...

Some years ago I saw a display in the Younger Hall by a group called (I
think) the Fife Wheelchair Dancers. They were totally self-propelled - no
ablebodied pushers - and very impressive indeed in their mobility and
capacity to express the spirit of the dances (SCD, of course, and the
faster the better!)

I can't remember very much detail, but I do have a contact phone number -
I'll send it off-list to anyone interested.
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Graham Mackenzie
Doocot Lodge, 7 Doocot Road,
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 8QP.
Telephone: 01334 - 475604