Wheelchair dance
The wheelchair dance is a disabled sport , in which wheelchairs , some with non-disabled partners in the dance move to music. The wheelchair dance was founded in 1974 by Gertrude Krombholz , and world championships have been held since 1998.
description
In wheelchair dancing as a sport, it is important to use the (physical) possibilities of the wheelchair user without losing sight of the character of the dances. In the meantime, the figures and choreographies have been adapted to this principle and perfected, rules have been drawn up and further possibilities for couple and group dancing have been created. The spectrum ranges from classical dance to modern and artistic forms of expression. There are grassroots and competitive sports competitions at home and abroad that differ from the models only in that at least one of the partners has a more or less pronounced walking disability. World and European championships have been held in the various classes of standard and Latin dances since 1989.
to form
There are different forms of wheelchair dance:
- In combi dancing, a non-disabled partner dances with a wheelchair user. In the early days of the wheelchair dance, the non-disabled partner danced around the wheelchair, sometimes the wheelchair user was pulled in the desired direction. Today both partners dance equally with each other, the non-disabled person dances with the usual dance steps , while the wheelchair user moves his wheelchair to the rhythm of the music.
- In duo dancing , two wheelchair users dance with each other, both move their wheelchairs in time and around or towards each other.
- In formation dancing, four to eight couples dance together; in formation dancing, both combi and duo pairs can dance together.
- When dancing individually , a wheelchair user dances alone.
Development of wheelchair dancing as a sport
The first dance activities between wheelchair users and with non-disabled partners were in rehab centers (such as the English “Spastic Society School” in London), in leisure facilities (such as in a Swedish “Youth Club DHR”) and above all in the late 1960s to register for social occasions (as in some German disabled facilities).
In the beginning, wheelchair users danced alone to the beat of the music ("Single Dance") or two wheelchair users cooperated rhythmically and interactively with one another ("Duo Dance"). The first activities of integrative dancing between wheelchair users and non-disabled partners (“Combi Dance”) began in 1973. Internationally pioneering, a demonstration of 14 wheelchair dancers was integrated into a project group of 128 dancers from the Technical University of Munich and 22,000 participants at the World Gymnaestrada 1975 in Berlin.
The first national competitions took place at the 1st Wheelchair Dance Festival in 1971 in London / GBR. The first national dance tournament in Combi-Style was organized in 1975 in Sweden, the first larger international dance tournament as "Oslo Open" in 1978 in Norway, where many European countries gained their first competitive experience in the following years (including Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands , Austria, Sweden, Switzerland).
A highlight in the beginning of the tournament in Combi-Style was the 1980 "Wheelchairdance Exhibition Contest" with Viennese waltz , tango , samba and jive ; integrated into the "II. Olympic Winter Games for the Disabled ”(later Paralympic Winter Games) in Geilo / Norway. In 1984 the "European Cup in Rock 'n' Roll " in Munich / GER brought a new accent to dance.
The first European championship was unofficially organized in 1985 with three tournament dances (slow waltz, rumba , Viennese waltz) in the Netherlands, the second followed in 1987 in Belgium. After the “ISOD” recognized the Wheelchair Dance Sport in 1989, Germany was allowed to host an official European championship for the first time in 1991. This was preceded in 1989 in Munich / GER the “1. International Conference of Wheelchair Dance "with 13 countries and the establishment of an" International Wheelchair Assembly ", from 1991 an" ISOD Sub-Committee ", which over the next few years will set the course for all competition regulations and other international association connections (1993 EUROPC / EPC, 1995 IPC as Affiliated Sport, 1997 as Paralympic Sport, whose status could not be maintained due to new guidelines in 2002).
The first world championship took place in Japan in 1998 . In the same year, Wheelchair Dance Sport was recognized as an IPC sport and is now controlled worldwide by the IPC Management Team and the WDS Technical Committee.
In the beginning the wheelchair dance was more widespread in European countries, but later it also found a home, especially in Asia and America. In the meantime, eight world championships and the EPC / IPC eleven European championships as well as many national and international dance tournaments in the Combi style have been organized under the umbrella of the IPC. Duo Dance has been an official discipline in the tournament program since 2006. Hanover was on 6./7. November 2010 venue of the 7th World Championships.
An essential step forward in the sporting development of wheelchair dance was the adaptation to the regulations of competitive sport given in the IPC Handbook and the regulations of the World Dance Sport Federation / WDSF that are common in dance sport . So from 1999 the two sections “Standard Dances” and “Latin American Dances” with the five established dances for official championships were taken over. The IPC has recently entered into a cooperation with the IDSF with the aim of increasingly going together in wheelchair dance sport in the future.
The function of the National Paralympic Committee or "national paralympic committee" (NPC) as the contact for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is carried out in Germany by the German Disabled Sports Association .
Competitions
Categories
According to the guidelines of the IPC (the International Paralympic Committee), the participants start within the competition-relevant dances of the areas Standard (Slow Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Quickstep, Slow Fox and Tango) and Latin (Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Jive, Paso Doble and Samba) in two different groups, taking into account the individual limitation:
- LWD 1 ("Level Wheelchair Dancing"): At least one of the participating wheelchair dancers has limited mobility in the upper body.
- LWD 2 (“Level Wheelchair Dancing”): The participating wheelchair dancers have largely unrestricted mobility of the upper body.
- Combi : Couple dance with a "pedestrian" and a wheelchair user. There is no distinction between which partner is male or female. Same-sex couples are only allowed in popular sports.
- Duo : couple dance of two wheelchair users. Same-sex couples are, as in the Combi, only allowed in popular sport.
- Formation : Several combi or duo pairs or single dancers form a formation in which a thematically imaginative choreography, implementation of the music in movement and synchronicity is particularly important.
- In freestyle and artistic and free dance forms there are no limits to the imagination. This is where new choreographies and ideas are constantly emerging, which are implemented on the floor by a wide variety of groups.
Germany Cup
Once a year there is a Germany-wide tournament , the Germany Cup in wheelchair dance in Rheinsberg .
European championships
| 1991 | Munich | Germany |
| 1993 | Oslo | Norway |
| 1995 | Duisburg | Germany |
| 1997 | Harnösand | Sweden |
| 1999 | Athens | Greece |
| 2001 | Papendahl | Netherlands |
| 2003 | Minsk | Belarus |
| 2005 | ... | ... |
| 2007 | Warsaw | Poland |
| 2009 | Tel Aviv | Israel |
| 2014 | Łomianki | Poland |
| 2016 | Košice | Slovakia |
World championships
| 1998 | Tokyo | Japan |
| 2000 | Oslo | Norway |
| 2002 | Warsaw | Poland |
| 2004 | Tokyo | Japan |
| 2006 | Papendahl | Netherlands |
| 2008 | Minsk | Belarus |
| 2010 | Hanover | Germany |
| 2013 | Tokyo | Japan |
| 2015 | Rome | Italy |
See also
- List of clubs (wheelchair dance)
- German Wheelchair Sports Association
- Dancing on Wheels (British wheelchair dance show)
- Association of Paraplegics in Germany (FGQ)
- Independent living
- Ableism
Individual evidence
- ↑ About the sport. In: paralympic.org. IPC, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
- ^ University sports club Munich
- ↑ Wheelchair dance sport on the IPC website ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 2, 2011.
- ↑ Michael Webel , head coach of the dance sports department, national team Germany.
- ↑ Germany Cup, accessed on July 12, 2015.
- ↑ Chronicle of Wheelchair Dance 1973-2003 ( Technical University of Munich ), accessed on July 12, 2015
- ↑ IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships
- ↑ Kosice 2016 IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships
- ↑ World Championships ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 150 participants at the Wheelchair Dance World Championships in Hanover
- ↑ 2013 IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport World Championships Tokyo
- ↑ 2015 IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport World Championships Rome
literature
- Horst Strohkendl: Functional classification for wheelchair sports . Springer Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-54008-793-1 .