By KASSI JACKSON HARTFORD COURANT | OCT 18, 2019 | 1:35 PM For Molly Carta, who watched from a wheelchair when her friends danced when she was growing up, the chance to dance herself brought a new sense of freedom. “To move with the music the way everyone else might move with the music was pretty cool," said Carta, of Middletown. The feeling of dancing to a love song, and recognizing these techniques can be applied whenever she attends weddings and other events, opened up new perspective for her, she said. Carta joined nearly a dozen others in a para dance sport clinic offered through partnership of Gaylord Hospital and Fred Astaire Dance Studio in West Hartford on Thursday night in Wallingford. Waltz, salsa and cha-cha techniques were just a couple of the styles they practiced. While learning the moves and techniques to the waltz, Carta said she felt a sense of beauty that really stood out to her, particularly in the longer and slower movements as the class danced to John Mayer’s “Gravity.”