The Roll of a Lifetime
Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. That ambition 1 ended one night in 2010. Then a car accident left her paralyzed(瘫痪的) from the waist down. For most people, that would have 2 any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. Far from being a(n) 3 , her wheelchair offered her courage. She wanted to prove that she was still 'normal', whatever normal meant.
Normal for her meant 4, so Hill did it in her wheelchair right 5 her nondisabled high school dance team. Half of her body was taken away from her. It definitely took a lot of 6 and patience.
After graduation, Hill wanted to 7 her dance network to 8 women like her. She met people online who had 9 various spinal cord injuries but shared her 10, and she invited them to dance with her.
Hoping to 11 more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes. Dancing on 12, the Rollettes discovered, can be just as fast-paced and fulfilling as the footbased variety. In disabled dance competitions around the country, they're having fun, and as the audiences'13 reactions indicate, the fun is infectious.
Hill has 14 what many of us never will: her childhood dream. The Rollettes have helped her find something else just as 15. Every year she holds a dance camp for wheelchair users and in 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, being part of the Rollettes was really great. It was the first time they'd felt they 16. “I had a girl say it was the most empowering thing when she 17 into a room and everyone was at eye level,” Hill told CBS News.
The dancers aren't the only ones feeling 18. One woman saw a YouTube video of the team competing and commented, “You guys are so 19! ! ! I'm in tears because you rock! To be in a wheelchair and 20 be so beautiful makes me know I can be beautiful too!”
