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A female performer using crutches raises on high in the air amidst a historic courtyard Artist

Laila White

Laila White describes herself as the woman of two lives. The pair woman: The woman with two names, two mothers, two crutches, and a twin sister. 

  • Dance
  • Spain

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Leisa Prowd

Leisa is a dancer, performance artist and life model based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her main interests lie in Butoh, Contact Improvisation and Pedestrian Movement, particularly looking at the uniqueness of her own body in relation to space and other bodies.

  • Dance

A photo of Lianne Quigley while she is performing. She has long, brown, frizzy hair and her face is partly decorated with gold makeup. She stands in a warmly lit room with golden tones, and a bright blue rectangular artwork is hanging behind her. She wears a dark outfit and looks focused and composed while she is holding a black rope with both her hands. The blurred arms and silhouettes of seated performers appear in the foreground. Artist

Lianne Quigley

Lianne Quigley is a Deaf artist and activist, including performer, director, writer, collaborating artist, often utilising Irish Sign Language (ISL) to express narratives and experiences and an ISL tour guide.

  • Performance art
  • Theatre
  • Ireland

Maartje Bonarius is an artist seated in a wheelchair. Her black hair is tied back in a ponytail, and her straight bangs cover her forehead. She has light-colored eyes that look directly at the photographer, her expression serious yet calm, as she rests her face on her left hand. She wears a black earring in her left ear and a ring with a dark stone on her left hand. She is dressed in a black shirt and black pants Artist

Maartje Bonarius

Maartje Bonarius is the co-founder of Tall Tales Company, a pioneering Dutch contemporary circus company known for its unique blend of circus, physical theatre, and storytelling

  • Circus
  • Dance
  • Performance art

Two female performers, one with blonde hair uses a wheelchair and lies with her back on the floor, the other stands upside down with her legs cycling in the air Artist

Madeleine Månsson

Madeleine Månsson is a Swedish dancer and choreographer at Skånes Dansteater.

  • Dance
  • Sweden

Maja Kowalczyk, actress with Down's syndrome, dancing on stage during the Theatre 21 show Artist

Maja Kowalczyk

Born in 1997, Maja Kowalczyk is an actress, dancer, performer, and sax player, involved in numerous art projects across Europe.

  • Theatre
  • Poland

White disabled male dancer conducts an unseen performer with his hands Artist

Manolis Saridakis

Manolis Saridarkis is a choreographer based in Athens whose work 'Do robots have emotions?' was selected for Onassis New Choreographers Festival 9.

  • Dance
  • Greece

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Marc Brew

Marc Brew Company is committed to developing innovative collaborative work that interweaves a physicality derivative of strong contemporary dance technique.

  • Dance
  • England

Meine Damen und Herren Artist

Meine Damen und Herren

Meine Damen und Herren is a theater group. Men and women with disabilities take part in the theater group as actors and actresses.

  • Theatre
  • Germany

Mia Meneses with long dark hair, wearing a blue striped dress and brown shoes, kneels on a wooden floor beside a patch of dark soil. Several metal utensils - spoons and forks - are partly embedded in the soil. She looks slightly upward with a focused, intent expression. Behind her stands a metal structure on wheels, lit by dramatic stage lighting. Artist

Mia Meneses

Mia Meneses is an actress and performer

  • Dance
  • Performance art
  • Theatre
  • Portugal

A white male performer lit in pink and purple light, curls his arms above his head Artist

Michael Turinsky

Michael Turinsky lives and works as a choreographer, performer and theoretician in Vienna. His collaboration with Doris Uhlich "Ravemachine“ won the Nestroy Special Prize 2017.

  • Theatre
  • Austria

Two dancers are on a padded floor, with one holding the other from behind as she leans forward with arms extended. The dancer on the left has black hair tied back and wears a white T-shirt; the dancer on the right has long gray hair in a ponytail and wears a black long-sleeve shirt. Artist

Monica Barone

Monica Barone is an Italian dancer, performer and visual artist. Her dance practice is rooted in research on themes such as the sacred, esotericism, ontology, speciesism and antispeciesism, as well as the processes of phylogenesis.

  • Dance
  • Performance art
  • Visual Arts
  • Italy

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Natalija Vladisavljević

Natalija Vladisavljević is a Serbian writer, choreographer and performer supported by Per.Art.

  • Dance
  • Serbia

A group of four performers is illuminated against a dark background. At the center, an older man with a white beard and hat, dressed in an all-white suit, sits while three others surround him. To his left, a blonde woman in a blue and white tulle dress kneels, holding his arm. Behind him, a woman in light clothing supports his shoulders. On his right, a woman - Patricia Carmona /Nodual - sits in a wheelchair wearing a beige costume and leans toward him. Artist

PATRICIA/NODUAL

PATRICIA/NODUAL is an ARTivist for crip sexual rights and a transfeminist performer who uses the body and the Shibari as tools to explore pleasure and sensuality in dissident bodies.

  • Performance art
  • Spain

Patrycja Jarosińska  Artist

Patrycja Jarosińska 

Patrycja Jarosińska is a dancer, actor, teacher, and deaf person from Poland.

  • Dance
  • Poland

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Per.Art

Per.Art is an independent organization active in the field of contemporary performing arts in Serbia.

  • Dance
  • Literature
  • Theatre
  • Visual Arts
  • Serbia

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Sander Verbeek

Sander Verbeek is a contemporary dancer supported by Holland Dance Festival in The Netherlands, as well as being an Apprentice Dancer with Stopgap Dance Company in the UK.

Sophia Neises Artist

Sophia Neises

Sophia Neises is a choreographer, dramaturg, performer and theatre educator from Germany. In 2019, as a visually impaired artist she began an intense exploration around audio description as an art form as well as ‘non-visual dance’.

  • Dance
  • Germany

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Stopgap Dance Company

Creates exhilarating dance productions of world-class standard, employing disabled and non-disabled artists who find innovative ways to collaborate.

  • Dance
  • England

A performer deconstructs her wheelchair and rolls one wheel on the ground. Artist

Tatiana Cholewa

Tatiana Cholewa is a distinguished dancer and choreographer from Poland.

  • Dance
  • Poland