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World Para Dance Sport

About Para dance sport

Para dance sport is an extremely elegant, graceful and stylish sport which involves athletes with a physical impairment that affects the lower limbs.

Participants can compete combi style, dancing with an able-bodied (standing) partner, or duo dance for two wheelchair users together, or single where a wheelchair user dances alone.

  • Standard dances include waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow foxtrot and quickstep.
  • Latin American dances include the samba, cha-cha-cha, rumba, paso doble and jive.
  • Freestyle can include the standard dances (conventional) or any style for presentation (folk, hip hop, latin, standard, ballet, contemporary, street dance, salsa, Argentinean tango, cumbia, belly dance, etc.).