Dad On Wheelchair Dances With Daughter At School Event, Warms Hearts With Tear-Jerking Performance

A video going around the internet has left people absolutely speechless. In the clip, a father and daughter duo perform with other fathers and daughters at a school event. The video posted on Instagram has warmed many hearts as people praise the wheelchair-bound father for showing up for his daughter who would have otherwise felt left out.

Wheelchair-Bound Dad Performs With Daughter At School Event

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The video captures the father, Charles Potter, and his youngest daughter, Charlize, on stage alongside her classmates and their dads. Like every other daughter-dad duo, Potter and Charlize too performed the choreography with some tweaks to adjust the routine according to Charles’ limited movement.

Even with her father in the wheelchair, Charlize and Charles did a great job of finishing their performance on stage and did not fall behind compared to the other dads and daughters. The caption on the video explained how Charles ended up in a wheelchair, “Daddy was hit by a drunk driver, but doesn't let it stop him from dancing with his little girl,” it read.

In a conversation with GMA, Potter shared, “My youngest is doing ... a dance hip-hop chair class. And they had these daddy daughter dances and she asked if I was up to, you know, doing them with [her]. I was like, 'If you want to. Yeah, absolutely. We'll make it work.'”

The Dad And Daughter Duo Learnt The Whole Dance 4 Days Before The Performance

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Potter’s wife Rhonda Conrad also chimed in and shared that the dance partners had learned all of their choreography just four days before the show was set to be performed. “They learned their dance 4 days before performing… few tweaks to accommodate her daddy.”

Potter and her daughter worked hard together to learn the steps from a practice video the school had sent them. Eventually, they performed at the school event and not only gained praise from the people at Charlize’s school but also earned respect online.

Potter has been in a wheelchair ever since he was involved in an accident in 2006. The accident took place even before his youngest child was born. It happened in Virginia when a drunk driver hit Potter.?