The Dancer Wellness Program, a founding affiliate of the Dancer Wellness Project, is a program designed to assist dancers, dance educators, and medical care practitioners who interface with dancers.

“I would like people to understand how a small dream can grow to impact the lives of so many," pediatric physical therapist Joann Ferrara tells PEOPLE Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

Baton Rouge dance program Dance for All provides accessible dance classes to children and young adults with disabilities.

Five students in a dance rehearsal simultaneously reached their arms wide and twisted their torsos like synchronized miniature windmills. Moments later, they walked in angled trajectories, crouched ...