You can dance if you want to...

[azurelunatic]

As seen on http://failblog.org:

"I just didn’t feel all that welcome there for some reason."



"Inspirational Fail
Picture by: Bert Submitted by: jwhayne_34 via Fail Uploader
Went to my first and last dance instructional appointment with my wife at the Dance Doctor in Santa Monica, CA"

A little bit of Googling shows that the slogan also repeats on the website. The FAQ says that "Dancing is as easy as walking once you are taught by a Dance Doctor Instructor." So if walking isn't an option, learning with these instructors doesn't seem to be one either.

Granted, dancing on wheels does seem like a very different art than dancing with feet, requiring different instructor skill sets. But oh my goodness, that photo just says it all.

Comments

[inalasahl]

I thought that would have been obvious - because of the rather different skillset involved (or so it seems to me) in teaching dancing-on-wheels compared to teaching dancing-on-feet.

For example, classical ballroom dancing involves two legs and two arms (the legs to do the moves and the arms to hold on to your partner and give cues by subtle pressure); if you need your arms free to move your wheels, you'd probably have to re-think quite a few things.
That might be true if people dancing in wheelchairs was a new thing that someone had to "re-think." But it's been an organized sport for 30 years (and I'm sure people did it on their own before that). A class is going to have a mixture of people anyway as people in wheelchairs may have partners who aren't, so a professional teacher should be able to teach both seated and standing dancing.

This site's slogan is "Everyone Can Dance!!!" and I doubt that's a coincidence. The failblog guy is probably not the first to point out that Dance Doctor is behind the times.