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Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer.
切爾茜·希爾自從三歲起就夢想成為一名舞者。
"The only thing that I loved was dance," she told CBS News. That ambition nearly ended one night in 2010.
她告訴CBS新聞，“我唯一喜歡的事情就是跳舞。”這個理想差點在2010年的一個晚上破滅。
Hill, then a 17-year-old high school senior in Pacific Grove, California,
當時17歲的希爾是加州太平洋叢林市的一名高三學生，
was in a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed from the waist down.
在一次車禍中，她住院51天，腰部以下癱瘓。
For most people, that would have dashed any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning.
對于大部分人來說，這會使擁有一個舞者生涯的任何希望都破滅。對希爾來說，這就是開始。
Far from being an obstacle, her wheelchair emboldened her.
她的輪椅不僅沒有成為障礙，反而使她更加勇敢。
"I wanted to prove to my community—and to myself—that I was still ‘normal,'" she told Teen Vogue.
“我想向我的社區和我自己證明，我仍然是‘正常的’，”她告訴《少女時尚》雜志。
"Whatever normal meant." Normal for her meant dancing,
“不管正常是什么意思。”正常對她來說就意味著跳舞，
so Hill did it in her wheelchair right alongside her nondisabled high school dance team.
于是，希爾坐在輪椅上，和她的非殘疾高中舞蹈隊一起跳起了舞。
"Half of my body was taken away from me, and I have to move it with my hands," Hill told Today.
希爾告訴《今日》雜志，“我一半的身體被帶走了，我不得不用我的手來舞動。
"It definitely took a lot of learning and patience."
“這肯定需要很多的學習和耐心。”
After graduation, Hill wanted to expand her dance network to include women like her.
畢業后，希爾想要聚集像她這樣的女人來拓展她的舞蹈網絡。
She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord injuries but shared her determination, and she invited them to dance with her.
她在網上和遭遇了各種脊髓傷病的人們會面，分享她的決心，并邀請她們和自己一塊跳舞。
"It was such an amazing experience." Hoping to reach more people in a larger city,
“這是如此令人驚嘆的體驗。”希爾希望接觸到更大城市的人們，
Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes, a sly nod to the Rockettes.
于是她在2014年搬到了洛杉磯，創建了一個由殘疾人組成的名字為the Rollettes的舞蹈隊，它是向火箭女郎舞蹈團的一次狡黠的致敬。
"I want to break down the stereotype of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance,
“我想打破人們對輪椅使用者的刻板印象，告訴大家舞蹈就是舞蹈，
whether you're walking or you're rolling," she told CBS News.
無論你是走路還是坐著走路，”她告訴CBS新聞。
Dancing on wheels, the Rollettes discovered, can be just as fast-paced, artful, and fulfilling as the foot-based variety.
The Rollettes發現“輪椅舞蹈”可以像“腳步舞”一樣快節奏、巧妙、充實。
