The Dancer With Tiny Legs: The Full Documentary | A True Story

This documentary, produced by Nine Lives Media in 2011, follows 34-year-old American JoAnne Fluke who was born and doctors thought she would only live for 72 hours.  Her dad Bobby Joe fainted at the sight of her webbed legs, the main sign of her genetic condition caudal regression syndrome.  Medical staff warned JoAnne's parents that her webbed legs would never work or grow, so she would always be dependent and never be able to do anything in life.  But JoAnne went on to prove them wrong.  She is ferociously independent, lives on her own, has a job, has learnt to drive and never lets any obstacle stand in her way.  Watching her swing herself from the floor, or her wheelchair, in and out of her car is truly inspiring.  JoAnne's hobby is dancing and she has started up Groovability, her own dance academy.

Since her first wheelchair dance class, she’s been hooked on dancing.  In this inspiring documentary about JoAnne's life, we follow JoAnne as she prepares to compete in her first “able-bodied” dance competition. But first, with the help of Sandra Fortuna, a pioneer in wheelchair dancing, JoAnne must audition for a new dance partner.   JoAnne has high hopes that with her new partner she will  put wheelchair dancing on the map and hopes one day to be good enough to enter the para-olympics, where this is an official sport.

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