As I can go
to any class to check them and see for myself what they were doing, I went to a
class given by Kaie, the folk and line dance teacher. I was surprised to see
the doors of the dancing hall open during a workshop, something that normally
doesn’t happen to avoid the noise in the other class. But it was for a good
reason. That afternoon, the dance class wasn’t for valid but for wheel chair
people. That is really cool of the teacher to organize such activities even
though she is valid, she also uses a wheel chair to dance like them.
The Silver Wheels dancing in a contest
Even when
Nooruse Maja is organising their annual Linedance festival, they are not left
on the side of the road. No pun intended here but one the main event of the
festival is a single line dance on a road in the countryside. It could be
perfectly understandable for the organizers not to care about wheel chair
people but they decided to include them in the program, in the dancers. They
accounted for 1% (29 people for 2354 dancers) of the total participants for the
Guinness world record they achieved in June 2008. Record we hope to break this
year with more than 3000 people. I’ll be there to tell you all the latest news
about it and more!
The Silver wheels during the Line Dance Festival
For
pictures of wheel chair line dance, go there. For the linedance festival, click here.
Pictures courtesy of Kaie Seger, dance teacher at Nooruse Maja.
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