Dance
‘You can always find a connection’: an interview with Sonja Parmentier
OpinionResource
May 7, 2020
In the most recent DanceAble, Holland Dance Festival invited dancer, teacher and choreographer Sonja Parmentier to deliver a series of masterclasses in which she focused on finding connections between dancers.
Naked and disabled: the body as a site of strength and beauty
OpinionResource
May 5, 2020
There is a long tradition of artists and performers being drawn towards nudity as a tool of shock, vulnerability, truth and raw self-expression. It places the body in the public eye, revealing what is usually hidden, and uses explicitness and intimacy to spotlight the audience’s gaze as part of the meaning-forming process. Voyeurs, spectators, observers are not as innocently passive as once thought.
From Portugal to Poland: coming to Warsaw as an international disabled artist-in-residence
OpinionResource
April 7, 2020
The first disabled artist to receive the EU’s i-Portunus fund, Portuguese dancer Diana Bastos Niepce speaks about her experience undertaking a residency in Poland with learning disabled-led company Teatr 21. During the residency, Diana collaborated with the choreographer Justyna Wielgus, performing in her directorial debut “PokaZ” at Warsaw’s Zachęta National Gallery of Art. The piece interrogated the act of looking, what we see and what remains hidden, the limitations that stereotypes place on our identities – a challenge to the ‘socially acceptable’.
Madeleine Månsson
Artist
Madeleine is a dancer and choreographer based at Skånes Dansteater in Malmö, Sweden.
Artist laboratory #5. Making the Leap: Dancer to Choreographer Revealing one’s voice
June 7 – June 11, 2022 Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
The long read: Dance and Disability in Poland
Country Profile, OpinionResource
March 24, 2020
By Alicja Müller (translated by Marta Dziurosz). Read the full version published in Polish on taniecpolska.pl