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and local folks who are doing great things.
Steward and
viola and friends from Toledo's I Dance performing arts group are here today.
Good morning folks. Hey, everybody.
Yes, they're ready to rock. This
is the energy I like. Hey, you have to have energy like this if you're called I Dance
because
you guys have the move. So tell us a little bit about I dance.
Well, we're like a small group organized for people who had disability or autism.
Just people who,
who just love to sing and dance and perform in front of the spotlight.
But
for people who were a little nervous or a little stage fright,
we, we just take things slow by slow. So
you hustle warm up a little bit.
Yeah. And in no time you're just sitting out here going
in no time and now you're under the light. So uh tell us.
So uh you guys, what kind of dancing do you do? Is it hip hop? Is it jazz?
Like what kind of dancing?
Any kind? Uh Just give us a request.
MG She just like awesome. She just like blows your mind
and you don't just dance with I dance. You do some other things too, right?
What, what kind of other programs do you do with? I dance?
Well, we just go and just do
this one time. We do it in the windy city of Toledo.
It was very, we would hold up signs for autism awareness,
we support for people who have autism or disability.
Just
I wanna be the voice of the voiceless and this is Autism Awareness Month.
Uh So,
uh why is it important to you that people uh get an understanding
of what it's like for people who are uh living with autism?
Well,
for people who does don't understand how to communicate
with people who ha has or diagnosed with autism,
they think like no, no way.
But I wanna make sure that I wanna be a good inspiration of positivity influence.
And I think he's our, he's, he's doing, he's doing it
right now and you all,
you're gonna do some sign language for us here in a little bit this morning to a song.
What do you love the most about being part of this group here?
Learning new things, perform out here and bring people smile, smiling faces.
So bringing a smile. Uh That's what it's all about.
Uh So what if people, if they want to uh join you all?
Can they just go to the website I dance.com to, to find out more information?
OK. That's what they need to do, do you do performances a lot? You know, or do
every now and again,
anything is possible.
I wanna give him a call and schedule something for your workplace or, you know,
that's a nice little pick me up here this morning.
It is, it is. So, uh, what will you all be, uh, doing for us this morning?
The national anthem and sign language? Oh, wonderful. Ok.
We're gonna get that music ready for you.
Oh,
ok.
Please.
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sign language was wonderful. I
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where
you can
follow along. So I did get a chance to greet them when
they.
Wonderful job. That was just wonderful. Thank you so much
for coming here today and sharing this with us.
We appreciate it and you can go to I dance.com
if you would like to join.
We'll be back with more. Good day. Stay with us.
One last thing.