DanceAbility International: Help DanceAbility Grow!

Thank you for watching! Audio Description and Image Descriptions below. Audio Description of video: (Photos scroll across the screen while Alito narrates the following) The World Health Organization reports in 2018 there are more than one billion people in the world living some form of disability, of whom nearly 200 million experience considerable difficulties in functioning. Many live in isolation. DanceAbility International's goal is to eliminate isolation between people with and without disabilities to create inclusive communities through "the art of being together." Currently, DanceAbility has 600 Certified teachers and 21 Master Teachers in 45 countries. We need your financial help to build our staff so we can support our affiliates all over the world and train more Master Teachers and Certified DanceAbility Teachers to spread the work in their countries. (Photos stop, we see founder Alito, who has been narrating, come into view) Hi, I'm Alito Alessi, founder of DanceAbility International. Every dollar you donate helps connect people of all abilities through dance and movement. If you've never supported DA before, please take this opportunity to make a contribution to help us carry out this vital work. If you have supported us before, TY and plea ocnitnue your usppo in the coming years. Thank you very much. End Image Descriptions of the slideshow during the narration: A map of the world - text says 1Billion+ A large group of people with and without disabilities in a circle - a DanceAbility training Dancing in a line in a plaza in Azerbaijan - a street performance "Informance" Alito and Emery dancing on a concert dance stage with beautiful lights shining down, Emery is tipped back in his chair, Alito is bowing, connected to him A little girl in a wheelchair in Mongolia during a DanceAbility workshop, smiling, dancing with her hands pointing one direction An African American man in a wheelchair has a gentle duet with a brunette woman at University of Oregon during a DanceAbility workshop Many people with and without Down Syndrome dancing in an ensemble and smiling broadly A little girl in a wheelchair and her adult female dance partner in Montevideo with their arms out, moving Many children in a line, making a dance together in Montevideo at la escuela de Roosevelt A DanceAbility teacher in Austria holds up a little girl and they dance together sharing weight through their arms, so the girl can stand. The teacher looks at her, making a movement relationship with contact. Dancers in Indonesia partner with Karen Daly, performance company member and DanceAbility teacher. Photos of the DanceAbility performance company: Karen is wrapping her one leg to dance on the back of Vanessa Fuller Dancers from Joy Lab in Montevideo perform an evening length show - blue lights everywhere, wheelchairs, crutches fly through the air, bright costumes Kelcie and Jana dance a duet together wearing blue to match Kelcie's blue walker onstage in Oregon Emery, Alito and Jana at International Dance Day in Shanghai - their costumes are tuxedo parts and they dance as a fun trio, momentum and invitation and WHEELS Alito has Emery out of the wheelchair and on his back, we can see hundreds of schoolchildren in bleachers, watching. Cut to video of Alito Alessi, talking to the camera for the last minute. End with the DanceAbility logo - blue and orange, two intersecting circles with a dot in the middle.