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USA Para Dance Sport Competition
August 10, 2024 - August 11, 2024

RIM Foundation is excited to bring the Para Dance Sport USA Open to the Dearborn Community & Performing Arts Center on August 10-11, 2024, in Dearborn, MI. This historic event will welcome over 100 of the world’s best wheelchair ballroom dancers from over 20 countries.
Para Dance Sport is an extremely elegant, graceful, and stylish sport which involves athletes who use a manual or power wheelchair due to a physical disability. Para Dance competitions have been hosted throughout Europe and Asia since the 1970’s, but never in North America, until now.
Para dancers compete in two categories, which includes a wheelchair dancer with a standing partner (Combi), or two athletes in wheelchairs (Duo). Athletes compete in all ballroom dances including Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Cha Cha, Samba, Jive and others. Freestyle events can include everything from hip hop to contemporary to ballet or folk dancing.