ABSTRACT
Neighbors can be geographically close, but socially quite separated. Such was the case with two groups, the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy and the Dance Program at Drexel University, both located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, until a dance collaborative was established in the fall of 2008; it is still ongoing at the time of writing. Located only blocks away from each other, the two groups of dancers—half in wheelchairs as residents of the HMS School and half from a dance major program at a private four-year university—would have no way of meeting if it weren’t for the collaborative weekly class. The residential students at the HMS School are typically middle school aged to twenty-one and dance in wheelchairs. Their partners are able-bodied dancers from Drexel University’s Dance Program who volunteer to be a part of the project.
