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    Accessible Dance Classes for All

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    Feel the Beat Through the Floor


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Your First Class Is On Us

Adaptive Dance Classes For All Ages, Skill-Levels, and Abilities.

Immerse. Include. Unite.

Feel the Beat was founded in 2016 to ensure Deaf, Hard of Hearing, disabled, and nondisabled individuals can learn, move, and express themselves through accessible, adaptive dance education. Our curriculum centers on communication, connection, and the belief that dance is for everyone, and every BODY!

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The Floor That Lets You Feel the Beat

At Feel the Beat, our studio features a one-of-a-kind vibrotactile dance floor that transforms sound into gentle, full-body vibration. Using embedded bone-conduction technology, the floor allows dancers of all abilities, including those who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Blind or low vision, on the Autism Spectrum, with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities, or with physical disabilities, to feel music through their feet and bodies in a natural, immersive way.

Designed with multiple layers for comfort, mobility, and sensory access, the system welcomes dancers in socks, shoes, or wheelchairs. This innovative flooring helps every dancer connect to rhythm and experience movement in a powerful, inclusive environment.

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  • About Our Colorado Nonprofit


    Feel the Beat is a Colorado-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit and dance studio dedicated to making the experience of music and dance possible to those who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and those with or without disabilities.

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  • The Power In Adaptive Dance

    Provide an adaptive, inclusive environment for Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, disabled, and nondisabled participants to engage in music and dance in a way that honors their communication preferences and needs.

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  • About Our Vibrotactile Floor

    Our bone-conductive dance floor delivers sound through vibration, allowing dancers to feel the beat throughout their bodies.

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We Are Redefining Dance Accessibility and Inclusion for All Abilities

Feel the Beat is a Colorado-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit and dance studio for all ages, skill levels, and abilities. We offer a carefully crafted, inclusive curriculum that can be adapted to meet each student’s needs. Our classes engage the senses, strengthen muscles, improve coordination, and teach the fundamentals of music, dance principles, and choreography—all while connecting students to music through our unique vibrational floor. Join us at our dance studios in Lakewood, Westminster, Centennial, and New York City.

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Dance in ASL With Accessible Movement

Our dance studio uses a bone-conductive dance floor, a one-of-a-kind and inclusive curriculum, musical tools, and a sign language-friendly environment that can be adapted to any student’s individual needs making dance education accessible to ALL!

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Inclusive For All Abilities

Feel the Beat’s classes are led by instructors with extensive backgrounds in dance and music education. Our instructors care about your journey and will adapt and customize your dance educational experience to meet your needs, all while cheering you on, one beat at a time.

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Classes for Kids & Adults

Our programs are curated for all backgrounds, abilities, and age groups. Covering a range of dance genres and styles, classes are available to both youth and adults with a specific curriculum to support the improvement of skills such as body control and awareness, balance, gross motor practices, multitasking, and self-confidence.

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The Empowering Benefits of Dance

Our customized dance classes use methods that empower students of all abilities, helping them feel, connect with, and interpret music while developing social, emotional, motor, and communication skills, as well as building relationships.

Try A Class At Our Lakewood, Westminster, or Centennial Dance Studios! 

Your first class is on us!

Why We Love Feel the Beat

  • “I’ll never forget the first time my daughter stepped onto the Feel the Beat floor—her smile was the biggest I’ve ever seen. Here, she isn’t defined by her hearing loss; she gets to truly feel the music and thrive.”

    Parent, Amber Lesher

  • "Feel the Beat’s organization, work, and the dance floor is unlike anything else! I am proud to support such a profound cause."

    Alan Bersten, Dancing with the Stars

  • "Feel the Beat really met all of our students’ needs and the vibrational dance floor was a hit!"

    Courtney, The Joshua School

  • "We deeply appreciate the offerings Feel the Beat provides in our community"

    Developmental Pathways

  • "Feel the Beat has done wonders for our child. She loved the Ballet class, and we will be back!"

    FTB Parent

  • “Amazing opportunity for my kids to be able to enjoy music and have full ASL accessibility."

    FTB Parent

  • "This is the best experience in my entire life"

    Deaf Dancer with Colorado Movement Lab

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