For 11 years, 16-year-old Morgan Frey has tapped and side shuffled her way into the hearts of family and friends.
Her dance is down pat, but wing steps — moving her ankles from side to side — proves a little more difficult.
“I don’t have ankles, so I can’t do the wing stuff,” the Aurora resident said. “But the sounds I attempt to make are still cool.”
Morgan, who has also ventured into jazz and modern dance and musical theatre, is a multiple amputee, missing both legs from below the knee and her right hand since birth.
She picked up some of her dancing know-how from TV.
Heather Mills, ex-wife of musician Paul McCartney, brought her prosthetic leg into prime time on the show Dancing with the Stars.
“For each style of dance, she had a different leg,” Morgan said. “You don’t need that many legs. I have my regular legs and my heel legs.”
Two pairs of legs, one for everyday and one for high heels, is plenty, said the aspiring actress, who celebrated her sweet 16 up close and personal with the Toronto tour of So You Think You Can Dance Canada Sunday.
In one episode of the show, a contestant wore a sweat band on her elbow where her prosthetic arm connected with her real arm.
“I saw it and said, “I want one,’” Morgan said. “It looks so real, except that it doesn’t move.”
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