The NDI DREAM Project (Dancers Realize Excellence through Arts and Movement) is an inclusive dance program that provides children with and without disabilities the opportunity to perform. In this unique program, children with a wide range of disabilities and a group of age-matched, non-disabled peers from NDI’s Advanced Teams become partners, dancing and performing together with the goals of maximizing participation and challenging every dancer to achieve their best through teamwork, creativity, empathy, and discovery. The program culminates in a performance celebrating each child’s success, the joy of inclusion, and the transformative power of dance.

DREAM was co-created by NDI Artistic Director, Kay Gayner, and Pediatric Physical Therapist, Dr. Agnes McConlogue Ferro. This week-long workshop is held twice per year, in February and August, at the Jacques d’Amboise Center for Learning & the Arts in Harlem. The program serves dancers ages 8 to 16 years old and is offered free-of-charge to all participants.