La Danza Integrada es aquella danza donde los procesos de aprendizaje y de creación se dan siempre en grupos mixtos de personas con y sin discapacidad.
En esta forma de concebir la danza las diferencias no se ocultan sino que aumentan el juego de la diversidad como materia de expresión.
Esta es una danza donde no sólo se aceptan todos los cuerpos, todas las mentes con sus diferencias, sino que esa diferencia es lo que la hace genuina.

What happens when dance is opened up to those silent bodies, those which aren't usually present on our stages?

When people with physical challenges let their bodies and their movement be heard, our usual ways of seeing are shattered and a change of outlook within the aesthetics of dance and contemporary art occurs. A change which society and the world of culture need to be open to.

In Integrated Dance, the concepts of "physically challenged"/"able- bodied" no longer refer to the duality of opposites which we usually think of in terms of "can" and "can't". Within this way of thinking about dance, differences aren't hidden but, on the contrary, offer us a richness within those differences which give us material of expression as they collide and fuse.

Integrated Dance offers us another reality: people with different types of bodies approach the creative process through dance. They discover their own way of moving, of communicating and of dancing.

Dance is an Art and it is an art which isn't only carried out with feet. A gesture with any part of the body also dances, the wheels of a wheel chair also dance if the emotion which moves it dances with them.
Integrated Dance is a type of dance which doesn't only accept all types of bodies, all types of minds with all their differences, but it is these very differences which make this type of dance genuine.

Ruedapies is a pioneer company in Murcia of Integrated Dance, formed by people with and without physical challenges; it is dedicated to researching Integrated Dance through workshops and to the creation of original performances.