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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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.
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Unexpected Bodies in Unexpected Places
The second Europe Beyond Access laboratory for disabled artists from across Europe, took place in Skånes Dansteater in Malmo, Sweden.
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Dance, Politics, Disability & the Body
In February 2019, more than 20 disabled dance practitioners from across Europe took part in Dance, Politics, Disability and the Body, the first of five artistic exchange laboratories of Europe Beyond Access.
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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.