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    No Limits Dance Center is offering new adaptive dance classes for children with disabilities at their studio located inside Fitness 360 in Nacogdoches, Texas. The classes are taught by owner Ashley Dodd, who has a degree in dance from Stephen F. Austin State University, and help students build motor skills through modified dance exercises tailored to each student's capabilities. Although the classes have only been running for a month, Dodd has already seen improvements and hopes to expand her business to offer more classes and activities for both children and adults with disabilities.

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    No Limits Dance Center is offering new adaptive dance classes for children with disabilities at their studio located inside Fitness 360 in Nacogdoches, Texas. The classes are taught by owner Ashley Dodd, who has a degree in dance from Stephen F. Austin State University, and help students build motor skills through modified dance exercises tailored to each student's capabilities. Although the classes have only been running for a month, Dodd has already seen improvements and hopes to expand her business to offer more classes and activities for both children and adults with disabilities.

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    No Limits Dance Center is offering new adaptive dance classes for children with disabilities at their studio located inside Fitness 360 in Nacogdoches, Texas. The classes are taught by owner Ashley Dodd, who has a degree in dance from Stephen F. Austin State University, and help students build motor skills through modified dance exercises tailored to each student's capabilities. Although the classes have only been running for a month, Dodd has already seen improvements and hopes to expand her business to offer more classes and activities for both children and adults with disabilities.

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    New Adaptive Dance Classes for Kids with Disabilities

    By: John Martin


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    Fitness 360 sign at 4822 N. University Drive Photo by: John Martin

    No Limits Dance Center is offering adaptive dance classes for children with disabilities inside
    the Fitness 360 at 4822 N. University Drive.
    Ashley Dodd is the owner of No Limits Dance Center and opened the studio in June of 2017.
    Dodd graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a Bachelor’s of Science with an
    emphasis in Dance. While enrolled, she performed for the SFA dance company and has since
    worked with and learned from several professional dance studios around Dallas and East Texas.
    Dodd offers a variety of dance classes for people of all ages, including ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop
    and cheer. The adaptive dance classes for kids with disabilities are part of a new program that
    opened in early October.
    Dodd was able to open this program after meeting with a friend who works with kids with
    disabilities, and together they created a program that helps builds motor skills, floor activities,
    and more.
    Together, they work with their students in a one to one ratio, and work with the students on an
    individual basis according to their physical capabilities.
    “I teach the class as I normally would, and knowing how to work with that student, makes the
    exercise a little bit different. So if we are doing floor work and working with our pointed toes
    and open arms, they are the ones that can move their body to do what we are doing. In the case
    that they can’t do that at that moment, they can work with a yoga ball or a gymnastics mat,”
    Dodd said.
    Dodd opened No Limits Dance Center with a vision of embracing dance and movement, no
    matter your capabilities or skill level. “I’ve always wanted it to be about something with no
    boundaries. It’s limitless. You can do anything that you can do with your body, and it doesn’t
    matter what people think or how you’re felling about yourself. You can just let go and move.”
    Although the classes have only been offered for a month, Dodd has already seen improvement in
    her students’ capabilities. “I know that we have a 2-year-old and even having her point her toes
    is something that is new to her,” Dodd said.
    Although her education is in dance and not special education, Dodd said she has always been
    passionate about this field and has worked with a couple students in middle and high school, but
    didn’t have the proper resources to apply it to dance until the recent collaboration.

    Dance Student enrolled in ballet/tap course at No Limits Dance Center Photo by: John Martin

    Classes for No Limits Dance Center are $45 a month for an hour-long class each week. Most of
    her students are younger kids and teenagers, but she offers adult classes for $5 a class, as well as
    a parent and me class that allows parents and grandparents to dance with their young children
    ages 2-4.
    Although Dodd originally was enrolled at SFASU for an agricultural degree in order to be a vet
    with a minor in dance, she stopped pursuing her goal to be a veterinarian with a dream of
    opening her own studio. “My mom was on a linedancing company back in the day so it’s always
    been in my life,” Dodd said.
    Dodd hopes to expand her business and move out of Fitness 360 to get her own building with a
    sign and a separate room allowing multiple courses to be taught at the same time. “We’re hoping
    to get competition dance going so we can travel a little bit more and work with the festivals
    around Nacogdoches,” Dodd said.
    To learn more about No Limits Dance Center, visit their facebook page, or send an email to
    [email protected].

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