Hi All- See the following message from Kristi Duke, a PT at Lenox Baker. If you’re interested, e-mail Kristi at duke0009@mc.duke.edu. If you can’t get through with that address, e-mail Rosie at rcc4@duke.edu!

The Differing Abilities Class, as its name indicates, is for kids with a wide-range of dance and movement abilities. There will be ~11 children total – 3-4 of them have very significant impairments of movement (quadriplegic CP); ~ 2-3 of them have more sensory-based movement issues; and ~2-3 of them are “typically developing” (don’t you just love that phrase… as if anybody is typical!). The children range in age from 2-8 years.

The class begins this Sat. Sept 10. It will run 4-6 weeks (was originally going to be just 4, but I am now inviting several guest artists – percussion, yoga, fencing, hip hop, zumba, flamenco…. My idea is for a guest artist to join us each week in addition to the regular teacher, who is a modern/ballet dancer).

I will be there every week as the coordinator, and will be able to move around the studio assisting you with the children as needed.

If you are able to do one of those weeks, or two, or any number at all, I greatly welcome your presence. I need to have ~5-6 dancers’ assistants (that’s you!) each week.

The class is scheduled for 915-10. I would like the dancers’ assistants to arrive at 9 so that we can talk about the best ways of assisting the children that day and assign dancers’ assistants to each child as needed. Some will need 1:1 help, and others will need less.

The class will be held at Barriskill Dance Theatre School on Shannon Road in Durham. If you need a ride, I’d be happy to pick you up (one of you mentioned having no car). Easiest for me if I could get you from the PT school (that is, from Erwin Square) or from Lenox Baker.