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Why Dance Matters

Why Dance Matters

Irma Becker: dance is for everyone

· 31 min · Season 12 Episode 4

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People often say ‘dance is for everyone’, but few people walk the walk like Irma Becker. In Miami, she leads the Inspire Theatre Project at Area Stage Conservatory. Inspire is an inclusive programme for neurodiverse ballet students – but it doesn’t water down the rigorous RAD ballet syllabus. Irma ran both a professional dance school and a special needs dance company in Mexico before moving to Miami, and has been nominated for the RAD’s Community Engagement award. How does she lead students through ballet’s forbidding thickets of technique? And where does her passion for teaching come…

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