21st Annual Summer Dance Workshops
As you make your summer plans, don't forget to include our Summer Dance Workshops and Theatre Arts Camp. Whether you are a professional dancer or an aspiring artist, we have a program for you.
To learn more, click the links below to view our brochures:

Adult Summer Dance Workshop
Youth Dance Camp
Theatre Arts Camp
Registration Form


Auditions for the Dancing Wheels Company

The Dancing Wheels Company, America’s first, professional, physically integrated dance company, is currently seeking male and female dancers for employment in the 2013 - 2014 season. Auditions will be held on June 21, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Dancing Wheels studios. It will consist of a ballet/modern class followed by repertory and partnering. Please bring resume, headshots and samples of work if available. Please call or email to schedule. Click here for more information.

Audition Location:

3615 Euclid Ave., 3rd Floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Phone: 216-432-0306
Fax: 216-432-0308
Email: info@dancingwheels.org or vfletcher1@aol.com


Dancing Wheels introduces colorful Daring to be Dumbo (review)
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer - May 11, 2013

Everyone of a certain age, thanks to Walt Disney, knows what happens to Dumbo, the elephant with big ears and persevering spirit. But Dancing Wheels Company and School has put an engaging spin on the tale in Daring to be Dumbo, the new story ballet the Cleveland company for dancers with and without disabilities introduced Friday at Saint Ignatius High School’s Breen Center for the Performing Arts. Click here to read the entire review.


Dancing Wheels Wins CAC Grant

The votes are in and Dancing Wheels Company & School has won the Creative Culture Grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture for our project Daring to be Dumbo. We received over 7,900 votes from Cuyahoga County residents. Without your support, this television documentary and school education program on bullying and social injustice would not get produced. Thank you for voting for us!

Click here to read the Plain Dealers’ story - Dancing Wheels, LAND Studio win Creative Culture Grants Competition

Click here to read more about the Daring to Dumbo project.


Dancing Wheels Shares Integrated Dance Insights

The Dancing Wheels Company was featured in the December issue of Dance Studio Life magazine for our newly launched physically integrated dance training manual.  The magazine is one the top education dance publications with over 66,000 readers throughout the United States and Canada.  Read the article


A Night to Remember

Congratulations to the students from the Young Audiences' ArtWorks program and Dancing Wheels School. Their performance at The Cleveland Museum of Art on December 14, 2012 was a huge success!  The Call and Post even wrote a feature story on these very talented students.  Thank you all for a wonderful evening.  Read the story


Fast Forward/Rewind;

A Dancing Wheels Exclusive

The intimate concert presented exclusively by company members entitled Fast Forward/ Rewind was a wonderful mix of duets, solos, and full ensemble works that evolved from the dancers’ desires to branch out and spread their wings as choreographersRead more


Manual Launch Event - A Huge Success

Friday, October 26, 2012 marked the official launch of the Dancing Wheels' Physically Dance Integrated Training manual and DVD. Read more

The manual and DVD can be purchased by click the Buy Now button or by calling (216) 432-0306.


Making National Media!

The Huffington Post recently featured an article sharing the story of Mary Verdi-Fletcher and her inspirational journey to advance the quality of integrated dance as the founder of The Dancing Wheels Company & School.

WATCH: How One Woman Built A Business Around Her Disability


Featured in Dance Magazine

The Dancing Wheels Company & School is proud to be recognized in an article on integrated dance by Dance, a magazine based in  the United Kingdom! 


Dancing Wheels' Van Stolen

Thank you to our friends at WKYC Channel 3 for covering the news of our wheelchair accessible van being stolen.  For more information, please see their stories below.  If you would like to help us to buy a new van, please donate here

Wheelchair dancers' van stolen & A Loss for Dancing Wheels


Dancing Wheels' Strategic and Succession Plan 

Dancing Wheels has recently evaluated and reviewed its plans for the future.  Please click here to review!


Past Media & Press:

The Plain Dealer, "Dancing Wheels Introduces Dance to Renovated Allen Theater"

The Plain Dealer, "Dancing Wheels Celebrates 30th Anniversary in Style at the Cleveland Agora"

Resolution of Congratulations from Cleveland City Hall 

"Flash Mob Proves Dance is for Everyone; Sends Message Through Movement"

"Dancing Wheels has a New Dance Partner"

The Plain Dealer, "Dancing Wheels Founder was Bound to See Her Dream Dance"

"Dancing Wheels Dance Troupe Entertains and Educates in Acton, Boxborough"

CLE+ Magazine, "The Roll of a Lifetime"

New Mobility Magazine, September 2010, "Physically Integrated Dance Comes of Age"

 

The Plain Dealer, "Dancing Wheels Packs Tons of Ellington Activity into its Gala Performance"

The Plain Dealer, "Working with Dancing Wheels 'Eye-Opening' for Noted Choreographer Donald McKayle"

The Sun News, "South Euclid Residents Perform in Event at Playhouse Square"

Cool Cleveland 4.28.10, "Preview: Dancing Wheels, the Angels, CJO & the Duke"

AOL Video, "Dancing Wheels, Helping Hands"

Dance Magazine, "25 to Watch in 2010"

Cool Cleveland, "World Class: Dancing Wheels Explores Helen Keller"

DD Quarterly, "ODDC Supports Employment Through the Arts"

The Plain Dealer, "Feet Fly and Wheels Soar in Boundless Expression"

Dance Studio Life, "Have Wheels, Can Dance"

Dance Magazine, "Spring to Dance"

The Columbia Tribune, "A New Spin on Dance"

Inside Columbia, "Inspiration Is On A Roll"

The Plain Dealer, "Troupes Share Stage in Enlivened Show"


The Plain Dealer, "Dancing Wheels Taps Three Choreographers for World Premieres -- At One Concert"

New York Times, "All Sorts of Steps, Strutted for a Cause"

The Plain Dealer, "Ben Vereen's Back on His Feet and Ready for a Night of Music"

American Girl Magazine, “Dancing Dreams”


 

 

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