Interview with Rebecca Elbogen from Ballet for All Kids 12/07/16

 

 

 

On our fieldwork we went to Rocco’s pastry shop and interviewed Rebecca Elbogen from Ballet for All Kids. Rebecca Elbogen lived in Los Angeles, California, when she was younger and took intense ballet classes. On one of the days when she was taking her normal class, she happened to glance upon a class for children with disabilities. While recalling this memory she described the class as looking like so much fun and way more laid back than her class. In the near future she started volunteering with that class and helping the other children. This experience when she was younger lead to her career now with Ballet For All Kids. While she was telling this story, I imagined what it would have been like to do what she did. To have started taking serious dance classes and then see other children also dancing but enjoying and dancing in a calm and relaxed environment. At first I would guess this was probably pretty surprising if she didn’t know that the people taking the class had disabilities, she was probably a little jealous of the way they were being taught. But then to take the initiative to learn more about the dancers in that class and then volunteer and help out on a consistent basis, while still taking her normal classes is pretty impressive. From Rebecca Elbogen I learned that to actually help out you need to care, because if you don’t care then why are you doing it. So for this topic specifically it taught me that I should really learn to care about how people treat people with disabilities like how people deny them the chance to play sports. She also explained the Schlacte method which is how they teach the students with disabilities. The Schlacte method was made to teach all children regardless of any lack of ability. I thought this was interesting because, how can one thing teach all children, if all of them are different. I thought that this method was very interesting and impressive.

 

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