[Apparelyzed]

BBC 3 SEEKS WHEELCHAIR USERS

Do you love a challenge?

Do you strive to be the best?

BBC3 is launching a nationwide search for wheelchair users to take part in a Dance Sport competition.
Wheelchair Dance Sport is a popular and highly competitive discipline on the continent. But in Britain we are lagging behind. It’s time to get Britain back where we belong in Wheelchair Dance Sport.

Our Wheelchair dancers will be recruited via a nationwide search and will be paired with a semi-professional dancer. Together they will compete in the “Combi” dance event, where each couple will be made up of one sitting and one standing dancer.

The winning couple will go on to take part in an international wheelchair dance sport competition. So if you use a wheelchair and think you’ve got what it takes to be the best, we want to hear from you.

Please contact us on 0207 428 5752/5755 or at wheelchair.dancers@fevermedia.co.uk

Entrants will need to be available for the selection process in May, training in June and for the 5 week filming period in July. The winner must be able to travel to an international competition in Europe in October.

[JT80]

simon - is this an early april fools?

[Apparelyzed]

Not as far as I can tell.

Simon

[Trinity]

Hahaha Strictly Come Cripple

Found it on youtube... Wheelchair Dancing

[wheelywendy]

trinity, on Mar 5 2009, 06:37 PM, said:

Hahaha Strictly Come Cripple

Found it on youtube... Wheelchair Dancing

cool looks like fun

[Travelling Blackbird]

Would love to try something like that, but I'm not in the UK... wonder if I have any cousins I could move in with for a while?

[Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO)]

They have some pretty damn good form.

[LeahC]

I went for this and got to the shortlist in London last week then they told me I was picked and had to go back Sunday just gone! I went all the way to London and then the big bosses decided Monday maybe my adult work history could be bad for them! They knew about my past from day one too, I was devastated!

[Travelling Blackbird]

LeahC, on May 21 2009, 01:01 AM, said:

I went for this and got to the shortlist in London last week then they told me I was picked and had to go back Sunday just gone! I went all the way to London and then the big bosses decided Monday maybe my adult work history could be bad for them! They knew about my past from day one too, I was devastated!

Sorry to hear that. Can't you argue that they knew all along, and that you made no secret of it? Hell, you think it'd be some kind of good publicity potential in it, if you were prepared for that... fingers crossed that they give you your chance to dance.

[Zammo]

That's a shame Leah, it would have generated some good traffic for your site ;-)

[LeahC]

I told them from the start, it's a shame I was looking forward to it as an opportunity to build up my strength and confidence!