We sincerely welcome all visitors to this site.

On this site, we will publish our practical experience in rehabilitating blind people, as well as people with physical limitations in movement, using dance elements and special exercises.

Each member of our team has many years of dance experience in ballroom dancing. We believe that we have the optimal combination of experience as a ballroom dance coach, military psychologist, and medical education to achieve good results in our work.

We believe that the name dance rehabilitation more accurately reflects the main goal of our work, as opposed to the name dance therapy or dance-movement therapy. Dance-movement therapy was born mainly as an aid to doctors in the treatment of mentally ill patients and is widely used in psychiatry now.

In contrast to dance-movement therapy, our priority is to increase safety and reduce injuries to blind people and other people with physical disabilities when moving in space, improving their mobility, coordination, posture, and spatial orientation.

We believe that these people’s understanding that people around them notice their physical limitations in the process of movement negatively affects their emotional and mental state, and it is very important for them to learn how to move and dance like ordinary people.

Previous practice has shown that people who have taken classes begin to feel more confident as individuals and can more actively participate in the social and political life of Ukrainian society.

One of the team members has a website Batischev.com.ua – dance therapy for the blind, where he wrote about his practical experience with blind people. Thus, we are the legal successors of all the materials on this site. We are grateful to all the teachers who helped us to gain dance experience, which we continue to improve. Especially to the head of the sports dance department Igor Soronovich for the opportunity to receive additional information from experienced dancers of the department. But we can’t imagine how our lives would have turned out if we hadn’t met wonderful coaches and wonderful people Yuriy and Yana Vasyutyak, the leaders of the Dance Center dance club, where we continue our dance practice. It is thanks to these great teachers that we have gained a fundamental understanding of the mechanics of movement in dance, the philosophy of ballroom dancing, enormous positive energy and a desire to share our knowledge with others.

We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to Olesya Perepechenko, the head of the NGO “Modern View”, thanks to whom we began to better understand the world of the blind people and achieve good results working with both adults and children.

We have developed very good relations with the Polish special education school in Owinsk near Poznan, where blind children study, and we hope that our Polish partners will also share their experience of working with blind children on our website.

After Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, we decided that we would write on this site exclusively in Ukrainian, Polish and English, and tell how we are engaged in the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.

Sincerely, Volodymyr Batishchev and Liliia Vasylkovska.