“When I was 17, I decided no one would ever get close to me, since no one could ever get past their fear about my body. But I knew I wasn’t my body. I decided then that since I couldn’t cultivate beauty with my body, I could at least cultivate a beautiful paradise inside. I resigned myself to accepting that I would never be able to share my inner paradise with others, and that I would have to live alone with it. But this weekend, for the first time in my life, this dancing has finally allowed me to share my inner paradise with others.”

~Sergio of Italy,

Workshop participant,

65 year old man with

cerebral palsy.

DanceAbility News

Recent News

• 2008 promises to be a great year for DanceAbility International. Here are some of the highlights:
• The big news this year is that DanceAbility International received a large donation from private investor Marisa de Leon (1911 - 2008), who was a Eugene resident, to spread DanceAbility in Latin America over the next ten years. Marisa’s home town of Montevideo, Uruguay will be the center of DanceAbility Latin America (read more »).
• Several projects in Latin America are planned, including Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Puerto Madyrn, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay in May and a tour of Montevideo, and Santiago, Chile in November (read more »).
• Artistic Director, Alito, also plans to take the DanceAbility method to other international locations this year: ImPulsTanz in Vienna, Austria, Croatia, and Finland (read more »).
• DanceAbility International is also excited to announce that this March Alito was awarded an Artist Recognition Grant from Oregon Arts Commission to fund his trip to CI36 in Pennsylvania in June to share DanceAbility and his contact improvisation expertise.