Northern Ballet workshops open fully to wheelchair dancers

Integrated classes reshape how companies think about partnering.

Owen Hale
Dance studio mirrors and open floor
Editorial illustration · Book Leaves

Northern Ballet expanded integrated workshops so wheelchair dancers train alongside standing colleagues in the same studio blocks, reshaping partnering vocabulary rather than running parallel ‘special’ sessions.

Participants said the change mattered as much culturally as technically.

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