WAYS TO MOVE

Ways to Move tells three stories that shatter stereotypes of disability; from disabled dancers who choreograph with wheelchairs as the core of performance; to the quest for the cure of spinal cord injury; to the story of a candidate running for Congress, who happens to be a quadriplegic. The individuals in each of these stories have been newly empowered by a combination of technological breakthroughs and important changes in society’s attitude towards people with physical disabilities.

Opening Show of the 3-Hour PEOPLE IN MOTION Series
1995 National Primetime PBS Broadcast

 

Credits

  • Director, Writer, Producer: Lyn Goldfarb
  • Research Director: Anatoli Ilyashov
  • Director of Photography: Sandra Chandler
  • Editor: Meri Weingarten
  • Composer: Michael Whalen
  • Host: Itzhak Perlman
  • Executive Producer: Bill Einreinhofer

Produced by WNET.

Selected Reviews

“…three episodes are moving, fascinating, often inspiring…the gutsy people with disabilities in this series are not normal. They’re way above. So is the series.”

– Sandy Rovner, The Washington Post, 1995

“…a new, slickly produced, highly personalized and thoroughly captivating series takes a wide-ranging look at the current state of disability in this country…PEOPLE IN MOTION is rewarding, informative television for all viewers.”

– Daily News, 1995

“Although PEOPLE IN MOTION is mostly about people in wheelchairs, it is not victim television. This three-hour PBS series calls not so much for sympathy…as for an appreciation of how some severely disabled men and women are challenging their fates…the wheelchair dancing, artfully photographed, becomes not a set of tricks but moments of beauty.”

– The New York Times, 1995

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