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New Yorker of the Week Special Feature by NY1

. . . and I find being able to open [tap dancing] up to people that never thought they could tap dance, and let them enjoy it, is huge.

-Mary Six Rupert, creator of Tap Dancing Hands Down®

New Yorker of the Week by NY1

I've always loved tap dancing, but I never thought of it as something I could do until I met Mary Six.

-Blake Hunt, Tap: On Tap company member

and wheelchair user

West Side Rag

I am teaching a student [with a disability] . . . her high school was doing a production of Newsies and she auditioned as a [hand] tap dancer . . . and she got in!

-Mary Six Rupert, creator of Tap Dancing Hands Down®

Abilities Expo

That got Rupert thinking: The stroke hadn't affected her mother's upper body; maybe there was a way for her to dance using her hands instead of her feet.

-Laura Muha

New York Daily News

[It] was like a renewal to me . . . When you're disabled, everybody says, 'You can't.' Well, here we can.

-Jeanette French, student from a Tap Dancing Hands Down® class at Mount Sinai Hospital

CBS News

The gloves are customized to accommodate each student's specific disability . . . Rupert's class not only strengthens hands and wrists, it also offers a creative outlet.

-Meg Oliver

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