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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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.
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Accessibility at Oriente Occidente Dance Festival 2020
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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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?
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Interpreting dance with disabled artists
Part of Europe Beyond Access is about building public interest in disabled artists’ work through audience education and taste cultivation.
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Sum of Us
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.
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Film: Making Dance that Celebrates Difference
How can we create dance and performing arts scenes that are more diverse and that support the work of disabled dancers and artists?
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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.
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Film: The Importance of International Collaboration
In this short film, disabled artists and industry leaders involved in Europe Beyond Access discuss how multi-country partnerships: raise the standards of cultural venues and theatres by presenting the most innovative work; enable artistic brilliance through new collaborations and the circulation of ideas; help theatres draw in and engage more diverse audiences that reflect a country’s population.
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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.
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Celebrating 20 years of Per.Art
Per.Art, the learning-disability theatre company based in Novi Sad, Serbia is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a programme of performances at Gallery of Matica srpska 13-15 December. Joe Turnbull spoke to Artistic Director Saša Asentić about the company’s development over the years.