“Demarco just echoes what I wanted my artistry and my dance to do,” says the company’s founder Mary Verdi-Fletcher. “Taking hold of your life and finding the things that give you joy and going after them.”

The factory worker now turned professional dancer has advice for those facing adversity.

“Don’t just sit around and not do anything and stop living life,” says Demarco Sleeper. “I don’t want to have self-pity. People do that and the time and energy they put into doing that they could be putting it into helping themselves”

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