Cut Loose, Footloose and Dance with These Deaf and Hard of Hearing Kids

Sit in on the group's rehearsals and learn about why DanceEd Movement Project means so much to Andrea Gregorio and Krista Deady and the kids they work with.
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Alberta School for the Deaf vice principal Shelly Prain remembers that when she studied at the National Ballet School, people were surprised that she could dance. Being deaf, the assumption was that she couldn't hear the music - and therefore, she'd have a difficult time moving to it.
But Prain points out that dance is about movement, about knowing the rhythm. And she takes apart the stereotype, saying, "We have deaf doctors, deaf lawyers, deaf dancers - we can be anything...I think people need to take down that mindset."
Enter DanceED Movement Project, a program in Edmonton started by dancers Andrea Gregorio and Krista Deady. The Alberta School for the Deaf is among the many schools they take their empowering dance workshops to. Recently, Gregorio, Deady and a bunch of enthusiastic kids spent a week learning some dynamic routines in a gym equipped with a powerful subwoofer and danced it out, getting ready for a performance in front of their parents and the community at the end of the week.
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Cut Loose, Footloose With These Hard Of hearing And Deaf Kids
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