Resources

This section collects all the materials EBA has produced over the years. It is content that can be inspiring and useful to artists, companies, art and culture professionals, programmers, policymakers interested in broadening the horizons of the performing arts world.

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Two female dancers are on wheelchairs, one of them is holding the head of the other. The male artist, without arms and legs, is sitting on the floor next to one of the wheelchair. The dancer is gently touching his hair. They are in a dance studio and the overall mood is one of support Resource

Provocation and Radical Access

The international laboratory curated by Kate Marsh and Laila White between October 2024 and April 2025

  • Artistic laboratories
  • Artistic Practice
  • International Exchange
  • Dance
  • Performance art

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Time to Act: Two Years On, Data-led insights on Performing Arts and Disability in Europe

Two years on from the ground-breaking Time to Act report, British Council has commissioned On the Move – to conduct a follow-up report looking further into the knowledge gaps in the cultural sector that contribute towards inequalities for disabled artists and audiences. 

  • Advocacy
  • Dance
  • Theatre

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Time to Act: How lack of knowledge in the cultural sector creates barriers for disabled artists and audiences

A research report authored by On The Move, and commissioned by the British Council in the context of Europe Beyond Access.

  • Access for Audiences
  • Advocacy
  • Dance

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Beginner’s Guide to Inclusive Dance Teaching (from Holland Dance Festival and Stopgap Dance Company)

A new resource for dance teachers has just been launched by Holland Dance Festival and Stopgap Dance Company, supported through Europe Beyond Access.

  • Access for Audiences
  • International Exchange
  • Dance

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Time to Act report: preliminary findings published

Launching the preliminary findings of our new report ‘Time to Act: How lack of knowledge in the cultural sector creates barriers for disabled artists and audiences’.

  • Access for Audiences
  • Advocacy
  • International Exchange
  • Dance
  • Theatre

Holland Dance Festival logo Resource

Teacher training course: how to deliver accessible dance workshops online

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

  • Access for Audiences
  • Dance

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Podcast: dance, disability and building an international career

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

  • International Exchange
  • Personal insight
  • Dance
  • Poland

Large group of people facing camera with a Arts and Disability poster in the centre Resource

Report launch: ‘Disabled artists in the mainstream: a new cultural agenda for Europe’

‘Disabled artists in the mainstream: a new cultural agenda for Europe’ emerges from the first European Arts & Disability Cluster meeting in The Hague on 30 November 2019.

  • Advocacy
  • Symposia/conferences
  • Greece

Installation of an inside of a church filled with ballons Resource

European Disability Arts Festivals

This is an extensive (but not comprehensive) directory of European disability arts festivals whose remit is (primarily) to support the presentation of, and discussion about, work made by disabled artists and/or inclusive companies. This list has been compiled using desk research, recommendations from key partners and user-submitted entries. We cannot guarantee that all information will be accurate and up to date. 

  • Festivals
  • Dance
  • Literature
  • Live Art
  • Music
  • Theatre

Man with arms outstretched and a white vest on, he has a shaved head. Resource

Innovation Diversity – New Approaches of Cultural Encounter in Europe

Un-Label - New Grounds of inclusive performing arts is an EU-Creative Europe co-funded project with partners from Germany, England, Greece and Turkey, which explores inclusive practice with an interdisciplinary outlook. Project lead, Lisette Reuter introduces their new publication entitled ‘Innovation Diversity – New Approaches of Cultural Encounter in Europe’ which is now available as a free resource.

  • Personal insight
  • Dance
  • Theatre
  • Germany