Dance

Teacher training course: how to deliver accessible dance workshops online

ToolkitResource

Over the past months, many theatres, cultural institutions, arts spaces and dance companies have taken more of their activities online.

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Accessibility at Oriente Occidente Dance Festival 2020

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Part of Europe Beyond Access is focused on increasing access to theatre and dance performances for disabled audiences. In Italy, our partner Oriente Occidente have been working to engage the Deaf community in their region.

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Sharing: Dance and Disability in Warsaw

September 5, 2020 Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

Blue light illuminates an aerial performance suspending performers high in the air in a historic courtyard.

Subpac: tactile audio at Oriente Occidente Dance Festival

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September 8 – September 11, 2020 Oriente Occidente, Rovereto, Italy

Podcast: dance, disability and building an international career

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How do you work towards building an international career as a dancer or choreographer? How do you develop successful connections with curators and programmers?

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Interpreting dance with disabled artists

Case StudyResource

Part of Europe Beyond Access is about building public interest in disabled artists’ work through audience education and taste cultivation.

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Dance and Disability: Crossing the Borders (ft. Claire Cunningham)

August 14 – October 31, 2020 Online and in Warsaw, Poland

5 disabled dancers each hold a varying pose

AXIS Dance Company: Radical Impact

January 30, 2020 – July 1, 2021 Theater aan het Spui, Netherlands

Sum of Us

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A Europe Beyond Access performance commissioned by Holland Dance Festival. This marks the first time that non-disabled choreographer Jasper van Luijk has worked with disabled dancers.

Dancers create a complex group structure reaching forward and backwards together

Film: Making Dance that Celebrates Difference

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How can we create dance and performing arts scenes that are more diverse and that support the work of disabled dancers and artists?