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Everybody Must Watch ‘Everybody Dance’
Your core, your essence, your spirit just shines through everything when you dance, from your fingertips to your eyes to your smile. That’s the spirit of dance.
-Bonnie Schlachte, Founding Director of Ballet for All Kids, a cooperative ballet studio
This week, I invite you to take a break from whatever series you’re bingeing and check out this film: Everybody Dance. I promise you it will be worth it.
Everybody Dance is a documentary directed by Dan Watt, which follows a ballet studio preparing for its next recital. What makes this studio and its recital special is the fact that most of the kids dancing are disabled or have special needs. Throughout the film, we meet individual dancers between the ages of 5 and 19 and learn more about their specific stories and how dance has changed their lives for the better.
We also get to meet Bonnie Schlachte, the Founding Director of this studio, Ballet for All Kids. She opened the studio in 2008 after realizing with much research that…
