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Unlimited: an international delegate’s perspective
By Joe Turnbull on October 27, 2016
For every Unlimited Festival, British Council brings dozens of delegates from all over the world to witness its grand spectacle for themselves in order to foster new thinking and international collaboration around disability and the arts across the globe. To that end, Disability Arts International decided to get the views of one of the five Canadian delegates on their experience of Unlimited.
Miranda and Caliban: The Making of a Monster
By David on October 26, 2016
Disability Arts International talks to Robert Softley Gale, Artistic Director of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, to find out about the company’s work in Hong Kong to create a thrilling courtroom drama, due to take place with live, linked simultaneous performances in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
Highlights from Unlimited 2016
By Joe Turnbull on October 25, 2016
The dust may have settled on Unlimited 2016 but the sparkle hasn’t waned. More than 50 performances, exhibitions, talks, workshops and happenings took place across two of the UK’s most prestigious arts venues, catapulting this year’s Unlimited Festivals beyond its own heady heights. It saw an artist lift off from 20,000 helium balloons, a glitzy musical spectacular about assisted suicide, a dystopian universe of giant mechanical leviathans and ground-breaking international collaborations galore. Disability Arts Online's Joe Turnbull shares his highlights.
Trish Wheatley looks forward to Unlimited
By Trish Wheatley on September 5, 2016
Trish Wheatley looks forward to this 2016's disability arts festivals.
Ruth Gould blogs about DaDaFest and her curated list of profiled artists
By David on September 2, 2016
Ruth Gould MBE DL, Artistic Director of DaDaFest in Liverpool, blogs about this year's festival and her selection of profiled artists on Disability Arts International.
Unlimited: it’s global
By Jo Verrent on July 1, 2016
Jo Verrent, senior producer for Unlimited, the UK's leading commissioning programme for disabled artists, gives us the latest update on everything Unlimited.
Reflection on practice: Un-Label – New Grounds for inclusive Performing Arts
By Lisette Reuter on July 1, 2016
Lisette Reuter explains how Un-Label is working to consolidate the leadership abilities of a Europe-wide group of performing artists by providing training experience in producing workshops to support live production events.
Chris Pavia on realising his ambition to become a choreographer with Stopgap Dance Company
By David on June 15, 2016
With the support of Stopgap Dance Company, Chris Pavia has realised a lifelong ambition to become a choreographer. In an exclusive interview with Colin Hambrook focusing on Chris's professional development, the dancer/ choreographer explains the journey he has taken since first joining the company as a trainee in 1997.
Ian Ritchie writes about inclusive ensembles and accessible instruments: The Setúbal Music Festival model
By David on May 26, 2016
The Inclusive Creativity symposium in Gothenberg at the end April 2016 addressed developments in inclusive ensembles, new technologies and international partnerships. From Ian Ritchie's viewpoint the innovations within Share Music's work in Sweden have been timed perfectly to dovetail with precedents established by The Setúbal Music Festival, now in its sixth year.
Ian Ritchie reflects on the creative case for diversity and inclusion within the classical music industry
By David on May 19, 2016
On returning from the Inclusive Creativity produced by Share Music Ian Ritchie reflects on the role of adaptive music technologies, telling the stories of Clarence Adoo’s Headspace, Nigel Osborne’s Skoog and advocating for a change in the approach of the classical music profession to extend its range in thinking about new instrumentation in terms of teaching, practice and in composition.
Janice Parker advocates new forms in Dance
By David on May 6, 2016
Reflecting on her time in Barcelona working on a mentoring project led by British Council Spain, Janice Parker writes with passion and aplomb about the innovation in dance made possible by the potential for disabled choreographers to break convention and invent new modes of expression.
Reflections of an audio describer
By Disability Arts International on November 25, 2014
Ever wondered what an audio describer does? Lara Torr, an alumna of the British Council's Realise Your Dream programme, is a visual artist and audio describer based in Adelaide and offers some great insights.
Deaf Men Dancing at Sadlers Wells
By Disability Arts International on September 26, 2014
Mark Smith, founder of Deaf Men Dancing introduces the work of the company ahead of a performance at Sadler's Wells.
Access can be a key component of creativity
By Disability Arts International on September 3, 2014
Garry Robson, the Artistic Director of Fittings Mutimedia Arts, took time during rehearsals for their performance of Edmund the Learned Pig at London's Southbank Centre as part of the Unlimited festival (2014), to talk about the mainstreaming of disability arts and the creative opportunities of making accessible work.