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See 2019 DT Awardee Marisa Hamamoto Perform on "Good Morning America"

Last week, 2019 DT Awardee Marisa Hamamoto and her partner Piotr Iwanicki brought their boundary-breaking work to the “Good Morning America” stage in a segment highlighting her inclusive dance company Infinite Flow. Infinite Flow is a Los Angeles–based wheelchair ballroom dance company (the first of its kind in the U.S.) that incorporates an equal number […]

Dance Teacher Honors Marisa Hamamoto at the 2019 #DanceTeacherSummit

While taking class in 2006, Marisa Hamamoto felt a tingling sensation in her elbows, then suddenly collapsed to the floor. She was hospitalized and diagnosed with spinal cord infarction, a rare spinal stroke that left her paralyzed from the neck down. Despite being told by her doctor that she may never walk again, let alone […]