DANCING WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS

Ryan Morissette is truly an inspiration to us all. This young dancer not only

rips it up on stage when he performs, but he spends time sharing his art through teaching other kids. He also helps raise money for various charities, AND, what a powerful role model he is to guys who might want to dance but are not always encouraged to because of old gender stereotypes.

Ryan dances at a very high level, competing, training, performing, all the while battling a disease that he has had since he was a child.  But Dance, for Ryan, is healing. It is his medicine.

“I have tattooed on my arm ‘Music is my cure’ and that’s exactly how I feel when I am dancing,” says Ryan Morrissette.

[When I am dancing], “I feel like I don’t have CF. I can just be myself.”

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