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Challenges – When Dance Gives Wings to Fragile Children
Challenges, a leading French business and current affairs magazine, highlights The What Dance Can Do Project’s expanding mission, from Moroccan orphanages to Paris hospitals, and the emotional impact of dance on young patients.
Close to the stars: when dance gives wings to vulnerable children
In a resuscitation room from which the beep of the monitor escapes, an unusual image: an intubated boy watches intensely as two stars of the Paris Opera in shimmering costumes sketch out dance steps in front of him.
“We’re going for a walk, an arabesque, and then, a fish lift,” explains dancer Hugo Marchand, performing these steps with his partner Dorothée Gilbert. “We just came to say hello and give you a kiss,” the child responds with a little wave.