Dancing for Diabetes returns this weekend

The annual event benefits Touched by Type 1, a local organization that raised funds to find a cure for diabetes.

By Michael Eng | 1:37 p.m. November 12, 2024

Touched by Type 1’s 24th annual Dancing for Diabetes returns this weekend.

The event will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., Orlando.

This event will feature award-winning and nationally recognized dancers to create an evening of entertainment and hope.

Tickets start at $25 and are available here.

Touched by Type 1 founder Elizabeth Forrest was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 10. As a student in Holley Ricker’s dance class at Millennium Middle School in Sanford, starting a nonprofit organization was not something she’d thought about doing before, but neither was being diagnosed with diabetes.

After her diagnosis, she was driven by a determination not to let diabetes negatively impact her life and inspired to create the nonprofit organization we know today as Touched by Type 1 — as a way to bring attention to the stories of over 1.9 million Americans who are living with Type 1 Diabetes, to offer support to those who have been diagnosed and to raise funds to find a cure.