Interview with Cassidy Wheelchair Dancer
Cassidy the Wheelchair Dancer
Backchat was joined by, Esnerelda a fantastic mother who has a daughter that has leg paralyses from her waist downward. However, despite her disability, she is also a wheelchair dancer. Currently, they are raising awareness about the art of wheelchair dancing are in need of funds.Today, they are joined with us in studio to tell us more about the art form.
Cassidy is an excellent ballroom dancer that use to takes part in competitions. She does ballroom and latin dance and is a part of the Angelo dance company. She loves wearing fancy dresses and practices Monday to Friday. Unfortunately there is not enough wheelchair dancers in cape town so she is partly self-taught. Her mother Esnerelda, says that she has had up to 58 surgary’s, 8 of it being on her brain and even the doctor’s had given up but she did not believe it was her daughters time , and she is extremely proud of everything her daughter has achieved this far.
Cassidy’s
amazing energy is what really captures people’s attention, besides ballroom
dance, she has her south African colours for not only ballroom but for sport as
well. She is looking for funding to be able to compete this coming September
and Cassidy says that this is something she is really looking forward to doing
alongside with her partner.
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