Ms. Lunn, a disabled dancer, entered in a wheelchair.

There is also performing by the Tressor Dance Company and the Infinity Dance Theater, which includes disabled dancers.

Ms. Carlson created "Flesh" for the Axis Dance Company from California, which integrates disabled and nondisabled dancers.

In 1969, she used her experience teaching her son to mount a production with both physically and mentally disabled dancers.

Ms. Carter incorporated the kinds of moves made by the evening's disabled dancers and used them as vocabulary rather than as style or subject matter.

She mixed able-bodied and disabled dancers into a group of equals, with a wheelchair used in unexpected ways.

Most important, her two disabled dancers were experienced performers and one, Bruce Jackson, was an artist of stunning authority and power.

A number of other dance companies around the world now perform with physically or mentally disabled dancers.

DanceAbility promotes contemporary dance performance that mixes able and disabled dancers in the same performances.

This is "a forum in which able and disabled dancers learn to move together".