Mary Verdi-Fletcher: “Blazing the Trail”

Mary Verdi-Fletcher, the founding artistic director of the Dancing Wheels Company & School in Cleveland, Ohio, shares her experience blazing the trail as one of disability dance artistry's pioneers.

June 13, 2022  |  Read Article

In Between Dance and Musical Theater

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Meredith Aleigha Wells, a dancer with Dancing Wheels Company in Cleveland, OH. The Massachusetts native has a background in musical theater, and started using a wheelchair while in college. She discusses the support she received in college, how the […]

July 9, 2018  |  Read Article

Rethinking Dance and Disability

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Mary Verdi-Fletcher shares her history founding and directing Dancing Wheels, a company and school based out of Cleveland, OH that has been uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities since 1980. Mary was one of the first professional wheelchair dancers […]

April 8, 2017  |  Read Article