Chelsie Hill wanted to be a dancer since she could remember herself. By the age of 3, she was attending dance classes. By 17-years-old, she’d had a decade of experience as a competitive dancer, but a car accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.
It took her a while to fully accept that the wheelchair wasn’t just temporary. She thought she was going to get better. But with time, she had to accept the fact that the wheelchair was her new normal. She was not going to get up and out of it, probably ever.
But she wasn’t about to give up dancing, wheelchair or not. Dancing was such a huge part of her life and she would do whatever it took to keep it a part of her life.
Luckily, she found a new community—the wheelchair community. The wheelchair users in LA were a tight-knit group and they accepted Chelsie with open arms. And in that community, she found other wheelchair users who wanted to dance. So she formed a new dancing group—the Rollettes.
The Rollettes are not your ordinary dance club. These are professional dancers who scorch the dance floor with their wheel and leave walking dancers in the dust and with every dance routine, they prove that there’s nothing you can’t do if you really want it.
