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Last week the invitations for our New Yearsparty where posted.
You did not receive one, but you are interested?
For more information click at invitation (Dutch!).
To continue NCRV's Voluntair of the Netherlands
Friday 30 November was anounced that Corrie van Hugten did not reach the finals for the title ' Voluntair of the Netherlands'. But also the other candidates, who go to the finals, are very good cv's.In the meantime this radioprogram was an interesting way to get wheelchair dancing in publicity. And Corrie, myself and many others received loads of e-mail messages. It was a cheerfull time.
Many thanks to everybody for voting and reacting to us !,
You can again listen to the radioprogram via:
Wheelchair Dancing.eu.
To continue NCRV's Voluntair of the Netherlands
Thanks to all your votes (!) Corrie won the first round, in the province of Noord-Holland, last september. Now twelve candidates are left.)
Monday 26 November (at 15:30 at Radio 5) Maureen will shortly tell why she Corrie
(and also Ondine) has introduced for Voluntair of the Netherlands.
On 7 December, international Voluntairy Day, a jury will make a choice out of the three finalists
and decide who will be Voluntair of the Netherlands.
Please help to promote wheelchairdancing and put all voluntairs in the picture, who are active for many years giving dancingpleasure in so many groups, and VOTE.
Enthousiasm during clinic wheelchair dance, 10 Nvember 2007
Saterday afternoon we are with eight dancers in the Day Activity Center of Heliomare in Aalsmeer.At 15:00 we start a clinic / workshop wheelchairdancing in the sportingroom. After two dances demonstration we invite people to dance with us. This afternoon not many visitors have come to the market, but everybody acts very enthousiastic. A Slosh, Ten pretty girls and later on the Big Square are danced as if these dances where practiced before already....
Before and after our clinic dancers of Walking Wheels participate in wheelchair tennis, wheelchair hockey, a fitnesstest and whe are happy to try the chairmassage. Although we hoped for more visitors it was a very nice afternoon. And even if we only reached one person for wheelchairdance, it was already worth being here today.
Enjoy with us?
Have a look at the pictures.
500 Euro for eight voluntair organistions, 2 November 2007
This afternoon eight organisations received a voluntair price at the event 'Samen ondernemen geeft meerwaarde'. Prices were made available by Gemeente Haarlemmermeer. The event took place at the marehouse in Hoofddorp and was organised by the 'Vrijwilligerscentrale Haarlemmermeer'.
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Walking Wheels received one of the prices out of hands of Tom Horn,
wethouder Sport. At his question what we planned to do with the 500 euro, Maureen
answered that we will add this to the total amount needed to organise a teammatch
in May 2008 !
At the end of the afternoon Arnold and Maureen have toasted to the cheque, on behalve of our board.
A few pictures of the activities which took place during
this afternoon.
For more information about this event
Vrijwilligerscentrale Haarlemmermeer
Beursvloer Haarlemmermeer
Venlo, 27 October 2007
For, already the second competition this season, Miranda & Ronald drove to Venlo/Blerick for 'Venlo Danst...', organised by Rolstoeldansvereniging 4 Wheel Dance under auspicions of SRN.
Miranda and Ronald start in amateurs combi 2 standard. After the first round, where eleven
couples are on the floor, they are placed to the semi finales directly.
And after exciting finales, with only six couples left, they end up at second place!
Miranda and Ronald where promoted from debutants to amateurs last season. When you reach a good result like this in a competition you may be proud!
Miranda and Ronald; congratulations !
We have a few
pictures of today.
15 October 2007
With six dancers whe drove to the coast of IJmuiden. Because of the week of Accessibility for the first time this special day "IJmond Onbeperkt" is organised in the Holiday Inn IJmuiden Seaport Beach. A day full of workshops, activities and presentations about unresticted possibilities for people with a handicap.Visitors could participate with wheelchair basketball, workshops braille, workshops
sign language, wheelchair dancing and feel what it means to have no sight in a
special darkened room. Also severall organisations from and for the targetgroup where
represented.
We gave five workshops of about 25 minutes.
Apart from this there where some presentations of experience experts. And Roos Prommenschenckel, ambassador 'Onbeperkt Nederland' 2006, inspired us with her story. In 2006 she was called to Mis(s) being the first woman with a visable handicap.
Although less visitors came as where expected, visitors and voluntairs
where very enthousiastic.
The organisation planned to organise this day again next year.
If asked, we like to cooperate again !
3 October 2007
On Wednesday 3 October SEZO organised a special market for elderly people, handicaped people and chronicle sick people in Meetingcenter Leo Polak in Amsterdam-Osdorp. Via Lidie and Peter, Walking Wheels was asked to arrange two demonstrations / workshops wheelchair dance.Ronald was satisfied with this first demonstration he had to take care of !
1 October 2007
In the radio broadcast of Monday 1 October is announced that Corrie, with 85% of all votes, has been chosen to be the voluntair who may participate in the next (national) round.Have a look at: Maak het verschil to follow the 'competition'.
29 September 2007
The same day a couple of dancers participate in a demonstration in Hoofddorp, Miranda Moleman and Ronald van Nus stood at the dancingfloor in Merksen/Antwerpen. They are the only dancers of Walking Wheels, but fortunately with support off friends of Miranda, they started in a small but well organised competition.We have a few
pictures of this competion.
The full results can you find on the site of Stichting Rolstoeldansen Nederland.
27 September 2007
With eight dancers we showed up at de weekly Brinkmiddag in verpleeghuis Oudshoorn.After a short break, when drinks are available, we continue with a lively samba duo
and a elegant Vienna Waltz combi.
The Vienna Waltz as a groupdance is attended with hugh enthousiasm, changing partner is not
going that smoothly - dancers don't want to say good bye to their dancingpartner....
yelling of ole during the Fado blanquita could be heard throughout the house I believe.
After the last few notes of the Texas Waltz we talk with some of the people living here, before they are brought back to their room and before we enjoy our drink. This demonstration was not only a nice afternoon for the people of this house, but also a tribute to Laura.
We have some
pictures of this afternoon.
26 September 2007
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What can we add to this, except that we will miss Laura a lot in the dancing group....
1 October 2007
Many dancers have said farewell to Laura on Sunday or Monday.
Corrie van Hugten from Amstelveen has been nominated for the title Voluntair
of the Netherlands 2007. In de week from 24 tot 27 September four nominated voluntairs
from the province Noord-Holland are pictured in the NCRV radioprogram Plein 5.
Corrie is, together with Ondine, the stimulating person behind wheelchairdancing in the Netherlands over the past 25 years. Many dancers in the Netherlands AND abroad feel the efforts of this, no mather if we are talking about organising competitions, scholing program for instructors or medaltestprogram !
Every day at 15:45 in Plein 5 you can hear a reportage with a voluntair being surpriced
with a nomination. You can follow Plein 5 daily from 14:00 till 16:00
on Radio 5, AM 747, for cablefrequenties see www.radio5.nl.
Tuesday 25 September Corrie will be on the radio. Monday 1 October, around
15:30 the winner will be presented.
The 12 winners from all provinces are in the race for the title The voluntair of the Netherlands. 7 December, international day for voluntairs, staatssecretaris Jet Bussemaker will announce The new Voluntair of the Netherlands.
On the website you can view small films over the voluntairs.
Corrie: "this nomination is a recognicion for all voluntairs who worked with Ondine
and me to build up wheelchairdancing in the Netherlands, and without whom whe couldn't
have reached this all".
Do you want to promote wheelchair dancing? Go to www.maakhetverschil.nl and vote from monday 24 September on!
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Last May Ger danced for her first certificate. She was so proud she told all
neighbours in Eijkenhove. Ger and her husband Rinus where a special couple in
our group, they will leave an empty place at the floor.
We think about Rinus, Reinalda en Nel in this loss.
After some drinks and small talk we find ourselves a table and sat down. During main course (schnitzel, sate or tungfilet) and dessert (strawberry, ice and cream) we talked a lot.
Meanwhile we use this moment to thank Meriam and Arnold for all their work at the handicap.nl collection period of many years. Also Cynthia and Ronald receive flowers and congratulations because they passed their exam last May. Around eight thirty the first taxidriver arrives and one after the other leaves. We will see each other again at September 3.
Enjoy dinner (again)?
Have a look at the pictures.
Theme of the day is Silver Power. Walking Wheels was asked to arrange some dancing demonstration and workshops througout the day. This will take place at the cityhall of Haarlemmermeer in Hoofddorp.
This is only 100 euro less than last year. Because of all the work we do in this we got a percentage of the amount whe collected. This time we will save the money for the competiotion we planned to organise May 2008!
Handicap.nl belongs to Ango.
Ango is an nationwide organisation from and for people with a disability.
They work on creating beter circumstances that are doubt of de disability.
We thank, also on behalf of handicap.nl/Ango all voluntears, people who contributed and of course Meriam & Arnold for all their work!
4 June 2007
With seven dancers whe went to Zorgcentrum Kennemerduin in Heemstede where we were invited to show some wheelchair dance and let de people dance with us.
The first half of the program is spent on Waltz, St. BernardWaltz, and some dances
together. Although we started with a small public, this grew during the programm. In the end many people asked us to come back some time. A wish WE will be pleased to fullfil of course...
19 May 2007
The board of Walking Wheels is very proud to introduce two dancers who worked very hard in the past season to prepare for their examination for assistant instructor wheelchair dance.Attending the course was partly made possible by a Johanna Kinderfonds donation.
Cynthia & Ronald: Congratulations!
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14 May 2007
Monday evening 26 dancers enter the dancefloor of Dance- and Partycenter Fokker in Hoofddorp for their medaltest.The happy ones are:
Brons duo: Kicky Koeckhoven, Cecilia Huijts, Anita Ruigrok, Cynthia van Nus, Ronald van Nus
Brons Combi: Ger de Laat, Rinus de Laat
Brons-ster duo: Monique Popma, Steven van der Laan, Tineke Tates
Zilver duo: Dennis Ross
Zilver combi: Laura Castien, Danny Castien, Lidie Venjakob, Peter Venjakob
Zilver-ster combi: Joke Boerema
Goud combi: Lenie van der Zon, Gerard van der Zon
Top-ster combi: Arnold van der Klauw, Meriam van der Klauw
Special duo A: Madeleen Roos
Special duo B: Annerie Koopman, Rob Hobo, Mike Onckels, Gerard Pietersma
Special combi E: Miranda Moleman.
We can look back on a successfull evening and great season. Leasons start again on 3 September.
This time we had two 'own' photografers. The results you can find ond two separate pages:
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12 May 2007
Twelve dancers (Meriam, Aronold, Miranda, Ronald, Cecilia, Tineke, Jan Willem, Piet, Lenie, Gerard, Lidie and Peter) instructor and two fans ride to Restarant 'De Wijde Blick' of ' werkvoorzieningschap De Sluis' in Woerden on Saterday 12 May. Together with 22 other combinations we compete at de freestyle competition, organized by De Swingende Wielen Woerden.Together with one other team we dance in class 1; besides this -in class 2- are two
other cathegories: A- all teams with two dancers; B- all teams with three dancers or more.
Because our cathegory has only two teams we dance a general look and the finals.
The first round is danced fine, Maureen is satisfied if we dance the finals like this.
Due to a little uncertainty with the music Joke is sent out to find the origional music cd and
we don't have pictures of the first round.
We enjoy looking at all other contributions; from streetdance, to waltz, to latin.
After two different demonstrations it's time for our finals.
To be honoust de first round went better, but it's ok. Now we can only wait what the
adjudicators think of it.
After a workshop Oriental dancing, which Tineke and Jan Willem attended very enthousiast,
it is time for the price ceremony.
We win the first price with Gipsy Roll.
All dancers receive a nice medaille from mrs Haak, representive of Gemeente Woerden.
In class 2 duo-teams Caroline and Monique - The Rolling Stars- win with 'Think'.
In teams three or more our favorite ' Sensation' with 'Garfield' is de winner.
All winning teams dance their dance again.
Than we say goodby to everybody. Lidie and Peter go back to the campingsite, the rest of the team celebrates the results with a meal at a Chinese restaurant in Nieuw-Vennep.
PS Go to The Swingende Wielen Woerden for more information about the freestyle competition.
7 & 8 April 2007
This year Holland Dans Spektakel is back at her roots: Cuijk.
Between 340 couples over two days, from 19 countries, also dancers from Walking Wheels.
Today Lidie & Peter Venjakob participate in amateur class 2 combi standard.
Although they worked very hard in their first round and in the redance, this
was where it ended. The spirit was strong but the body didn't want to co-operate
today.
Together with couples from Amstelveen and Amsterdam and our supporters we have a
nice day.
In a field of 16 couples Miranda and Ronald managed to go through first round, demi
finals and finals and earned the first prize. Also they got the title Dutch Champion
in their category: debutanten combi 1.
On top of all that they are promoted to the next class: amateurs!
The two couples from AMRODA (Amsterdam)where supported by us as well when dancing their competition. Marga & Wieger sticked after the redance, Paulien & Cock ended at fifth place and earned the Dutch championship title in their catogory: world cup duo 2.
After the competion we (dansers from Hoofddorp and Amsterdam and all supporters) closed this nice and successfull weekend eating in a Chinese Restaurant in Nijmegen.
PS Go to Stichting Rolstoeldansen Nederland for all results.
2 & 4 April 2007
We show the pupils a few dances and we dance several dances together with them like slosh, Aanloop-disco, Scottish Waltz and ten pretty girls. Also for our own dancers it's a rather unusual situation but together we make a great evening out of it.
Miranda, one of our dancers, let some of the boys try to take a slope in a wheelchair.
This was not as easy as they thought. They experienced the same with opening doors etc.
She enjoyed the enthousiasm and open minded questions of the kids very much. Also because
the weather was perfect, they all had a great dey.
Besides some understanding what it means living with a handicap we hope these days also help to promote our hobby and sport: wheelchair dancing.
19 March 2007
It was a big surprice when I, before our lessons started, received a laptop which was installed with music software and all dance music I usually carry in my suitecase.The laptop was sponsored by Omegam Laboratoria in Amsterdam and Ronald spent many hours making the laptop ready to use and dowload all my dance music to the laptop. By plugging this laptop into music equipment we have access to all our dance music, everywhere. During the lessons, but also at other training locations and at demonstrations.
Whalking Wheels is very happy with this sponsored laptop and whishes to thank Ronald and Omegam Laboratoria!
For more information about this sponsor, click the banner:
10 February 2007
Three couples of Walking Wheels participated in the 'Grote Prijs van Zuid-Nederland'.Via the demi-finals and finals Miranda and Ronald reached the 2nd place in Debutanten
combi 2. Jan Willem and Cynthia danced the redance as well and finished on a very
good 6th place in the Amateurs combi 1.
Although Arnold and Meriam worked very hard in their first rounds of Amateurs duo 1
and Amateurs combi 1 they didn't come further than the redance in both catogries.
So it was a nice and successfull day, may be because of the three supporters the couples
brought to Den Bosch, may be because the instructor was not there (but in the snow)?!
;-)
Go to Stichting Rolstoeldansen Nederland for all competition results.
27 January 2007
The first dancing competition this year ended in a wonderfull result for our group.
Miranda and Ronald danced their first competition together in debutanten combi 2
and went home with de first price!A great beginning!
Congratulations and a hug from the teacher!
Between al those competition rounds we enjoyed a streetdance demonstration (with many many kids and joungsters) and a Russian performance with typical Russian dance items. A totally different demonstration from usual, but very nice!
After this wonderfull day we (couple and supporters) return to Hoofddorp, very satisfied.
Go to Stichting Rolstoeldansen Nederland for all competition results.
14 January 2007
On Saterday evening 13 January 2007, many dancers from Walking Wheels and other groups got togehter for a party in Dancingcenter Fokker in Hoofddorp.We have a nice demonstration of Bunga Mas, three ladies showing us two well-performed Java-dances. For more information see the website of Bunga Mas.
After several hours of dancing; new learned dances and special requests, the evening comes to an end at 23:30. On May 14th. we will be at this location again for our medalltest.
Enjoy the pictures.
1 January 2007
Members and dancers of "Walking Wheels", stichting rolstoeldansen wish everybody a happy, healthy and swinging New Year!
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