On July 25, 2024, Feel the Beat was featured on CBS News Colorado’s story about the grant program funded by Colorado’s vanity plates. In the feature, Feel the Beat co-founder, Julia Faliano, talks with CBS news reporter, Andrew Haubner, about what Feel the Beat does and how funding received from this program goes toward supporting our mission of dance accessibility for all.

Feel the Beat is a Ruth Foundation for the Arts: 2024 Artist Choice Awardee! The 2024 Artist Choice selection process was informed by the recommendation of 19 esteemed collectives, who acknowledged the inspiring work of other collectives for their commitment to artist-driven models of operation, for their investment in peer mentorship and cultivating artistic communities, and for embodying the interdependence that is imperative to sustainable artistic practices.

In this Assembling Inclusion podcast episode, we talk to Jari Majewski Price, the founder and CEO of Feel the Beat. Feel the Beat is a nonprofit organization and dance studio in Colorado that is dedicated to creating inclusive and accessible environments in dance education.

Recently, Jari had the opportunity to talk to the team at CanvasRebel about Feel the Beat. In the interview, Jari talks about her background, how Feel the Beat was started, as well as how the organization serves the underserved through our programming and dance floor technology.

Feel the Beat has partnered with Colorado Movement Lab to bring this one-of-a-kind bone-conduction dance floor to their facility at 9910 Wadsworth Pkwy #100, Westminster, CO 80021. To celebrate the new facility’s opening, join Colorado Movement Lab from 12:30pm to 4:30pm on April 6, 2024, for the grand opening event.

Colorado-based dance studio Feel the Beat co-founder, Julia Faliano, was recently interviewed on KEXP Seattle's podcast, Sound & Vision, where she shared an in-person overview and demo on how Feel the Beat's bone conduction dance floor technology works.

Feel the Beat founder, Jari Majewski Price was interviewed by the Bucket List Community Cafe where she talked about all things Feel the Beat including how Feel the Beat’s vibrotactile dance floor creates sound accessible environments.

Wednesday afternoons at Lakewood’s Whitlock Recreation Center are special days. Those are the days when the Feel the Beat Dance Company rehearses. Feel the Beat’s dancers all bring different abilities to the dance floor, and the studio’s vibrational dance floor is for those who need a little help literally feeling the beat.

Jari Majewski Price, Founder & CEO of Feel the Beat, is awarded the Denver Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2023

We are excited to announce that our very own founder & CEO of Feel the Beat, Jari Majewski Price, was named a recipient of the Denver Business Journal's top 40 under 40 for 2023!

Feel the Beat is a nonprofit organization and dance studio that is dedicated to making the experience of music possible for those who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and/or with or without disabilities. With its bone-conduction dance floor, students are able to feel sound through vibrational energy that embodies the experience of music in an inclusive platform. Feel the Beat was founded in 2016 by founder and CEO, Jari Majewski Price and co-founder and Vice President, Julia Faliano. The first Feel the Beat dance studio opened in 2017.

Colorado Parent Magazine feature of Feel the Beat -

by ANNA SUTTERER

Former teachers’ patented system allows kids with special needs to feel the rhythm. When deaf and hard-of-hearing students first get onto Feel the Beat’s floor and the music turns on, it’s apparent they are experiencing something special.