StarDance is not only about beautiful dresses, perfect dancers, famous personalities and dance, but also about helping others. For the fourth time, competition couples will also dance with wheelchair bound clients of the Paraple Center. Matouš Ruml will present chacha with Lucie, who´s heart has suddenly “burst”, what caused her paralysis and the fisherman Jakub Vágner and Eliška, who fell on the bike, will amaze the audience with tango.
This is a whole new experience for all competitors. Although it is enlivening for them, they admit that to combine a partner, guest and a person in a wheelchair on the dance floor is quite a toil. Professionals will sweat with choreography for four.
Matouš Ruml admits that he has a problem to dance alone in this line-up because Natálie Otáhalová always leads him. Now he has a passage where he has to rely on himself.
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“I have to count well, so I don't get lost. But when there are so many of us there, I believe my mistakes will be lost,”
laughs the actor, who will be hosted on the dance floor by Dana Batulková and wheelchair-bound Lucie Gachi.
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Ruml doufá, že se za vozíčkem ztratí. Source: Facebook Centra Paraple
Ruptured aorta
Less than three years ago, Lucie got her lower part of legs paralyzed due to a sudden aorta rupture. The consequence was the necrosis of the thoracic spinal cord, which caused immobility in the limbs.
“No one really knows what happened and why, but it will be almost three years now, I learned to live with it. At Paraple Center, they showed me that wheelchair life doesn't have to be bad, ”
smiles the mother of five children.
She avoided the car
Eliška Šulcová devoted her whole life to sports. When riding a bike from the Austrian mountains, she has badly avoided a parked car. Unfortunately, she did not take a sharp turn and fatally broke her spinal cord during a fall.
“I've been in a wheelchair for 11 years. But I never got used to it. You can't get used to it, ”
says a 38-year-old woman saying that she has tried many sports thanks to the Paraple Center. Both ladies take the opportunity to dance in StarDance as a homage. All week they trained hard with the dancers and will show their best on Saturday.
We do help
As part of the StarDance competition program, the benefit evening, during which five paraplegics will dance with dance couples, will take its place for the fourth time. Traditionally, the founder of the Paraple Center, Zdeněk Svěrák, will also sit in the jury. Last year alone, 5.5 million CZK was collected thanks to donor SMS, the money goes to the operation of Paraple Center. Also this year, viewers will be able to contribute by sending messages in the form DMS PARAPLE 30, DMS PARAPLE 60 or DMS PARAPLE 90 to 87 777.
This year, the Paraple Center celebrates its 25th anniversary. Since 1994 the center he has been helping people, that were paralyzed as a result of an accident or injury, with a return to normal life. In the Czech Republic alone, approximately 280 people become paralyzed annually as a result of spinal cord damage. This happens most often as a result of traffic accidents, sports injuries, falls or jumps in the water. In subsequent rehabilitation, center often play an irreplaceable role. During their existence it has helped thousands of people.
