Performing artists are known for their creativity, vision, and the ability to share their experiences with an audience.

Our last stop on this palette of artists takes us to Blue Field Hills, home of Eisenhower Dance Detroit, where dancers are learning more than just technique.

- Eisenhower Dance Detroit is a professional contemporary dance company.

Contemporary dance is a form of artistic expression.

It's an abstract discipline that comes from the creative process.

Being a repertory company, we bring in choreographers from all over.

Every choreographer that I bring in I feel like has a story to share.

When I saw Marc's work, I didn't know who Marc was.

It just happened to be that we were at a dance conference.

When the curtain went down, I was just blown away, how well-crafted the work was.

I was so moved by it.

I just thought to myself, I have to have this choreographer work with my dancers.

- [Chris] Now is a good time to introduce you to Marc Brew.

But who is he?

He is a dancer.

He is a choreographer, and often, he is not what people expect from those professional titles.

- I'm originally from Australia.

I grew up in a very small village called Jerilderie in New South Wales, and I started doing jazz ballet once a week at the local town hall, and I used to think it was like going to Fame.

It was like the Fame school.

So I had a very traditional training.

I have classical ballet, contemporary dance, jazz, tap, and then I went to focus on classical ballet and contemporary dance.

I then went to South Africa, and joined Pact Ballet, which is the national dance company in South Africa.

And while I was there, I was involved in a car crash, and I had a spinal cord injury at C67, and I was told by the doctor I'd never walk again.

Yeah, I'm sure as you can imagine, being a dancer, my whole life was my body, and being physical, and being able to express myself through movement.

It was my worst nightmare.

But I want to dance.

That feeling was still within me, that I wanted to be able to move, and express myself, and I think that's when I realized I had to change my own perception around what a dancer was, and what it meant to me to dance, and that's when I realized that dance was about expressing myself through movement.

And I could still do that.

It was just different.

And I had to find different ways than what I was used to, and that I was trained, and brought up, to look at the way that I could dance.

- [Chris] But where to start?

How do you reclaim the thing in your life that brings you happiness and joy and is your source of passion?

- I didn't know of other disabled dancers, or other dancers who were using chairs.

At the time, I didn't have any role models.

But it just so happened that two of my friends who I trained with were in America in New York City doing class at American Ballet Theater.

And this woman had wheeled in in her wheelchair, and her name was Kitty Lunn.

And they pretty much jumped on her, and said oh our friend's just had an accident.

He needs to know that he can continue to dance.

And I think for me that was the starting point of looking at that there are opportunities out there, or that I could make opportunities, that there was someone similar to me, that I wasn't alone, because I thought I was alone.

- [Chris] And Marc certainly hasn't been alone.

Immersed in the collaborative process, Marc has deeply invested in the creative exchange with the dancers he works with.

- You know, I work with Eisenhower Dance Detroit, it's been amazing experience.

They're very open, and curious, which I love, and there's a real respect, and a wonderful exchange that's happening everyday between us.

And it really does feel like we're building this work together.

- I'm really hoping that this space is bigger than Eisenhower Dance Detroit, and is more about other artists finding their voice here as well.

Artistic people, creative people, want to be around other creative people.

I just feel like there's this connection that we feel like we need to be together.

To me, dance is a vehicle to help make an impact on humanity.

I feel like Marc takes it to another level.

And the way he sees, and the way he interacts with the dancers, he's a really special person, inside and out.

He has a sixth sense.

He sees dance in a way that I think choreographers with abled bodies don't have.

And to me, that was the real message, that I want to open our doors to everyone.

I want everybody in our space to share their artistic expression, whatever that is.

- [Chris] Even with Marc's successes, he's aware that he's going to be changing people's perspectives on and off the stage.

- You know, when I first acquired my disability, it's interesting how people judge me, and made their own decisions, judgment, based on visually seeing me.

And now what they saw was not Marc Brew as a person, as a human.

What they saw was my wheelchair.

And what they saw was oh, something's wrong.

He's not normal.

And then when I say to them, oh I'm a dancer, I'm a choreographer, it's amazing in the beginning, the sort of faces I would get.

And I could tell straightaway, they would just look at me and go like, oh.

The poor guy.

He thinks he's a dancer.

Oh, isn't that nice?

And I think that's where, for me, I've been able to hopefully have an effect, and hopefully change people's perceptions around their own thoughts and ideas about what a dancer is, is through my work, is through my practice.

Is from seeing me perform, or seeing other people perform, or people's, witnessing and experiencing the work that I make with other dancers.

And I hope that that will influence their own minds, and to then be open to possibilities as they interact with other people.