Para dance sport is an extremely elegant, graceful and stylish sport which involves athletes with physical impairment that affects the lower limbs.

 

Participants can compete combi style, dancing with an able-bodied (standing) partner, or duo dance for two wheelchair users together, or single where a wheelchair user dances alone.

 

Standard dances include waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow foxtrot and quickstep.
Latin American dances include the samba, cha-cha-cha, rumba, paso doble and jive.
Freestyle can include the standard dances (conventional) or any style for presentation (folk, hip hop, latin, standard, ballet, contemporary, street dance, salsa, Argentinean tango, cumbia, belly dance, etc.).

 

The surface of the dance floor must be a minimum of 250 square meters with no side of the floor less than 10m in length, and 350 square meters for Championships. Participants have the option of using electric wheelchairs if they need to.

 

From 1998 the sport was governed by the International Paralympic Committee In 2024, governance of World Para Dance Sport was transferred to World Abilitysport (World Para Dance Sport). China Hong Kong Para Dance Sport Association Limited is the member of World Abilitysport in Hong Kong, China and the organization of elite development of Para Dance Sport in Hong Kong, China.
 

Source of information credit: World Para Dance Sport
Source of photo credit:  China Hong Kong Para Dance Sport Association Limited