Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and the theme for this year is “Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future”. Today seems the perfect day to announce the four projects selected from the open call for co-production launched last spring. All these projects are leaded by artists with disabilities and they will have co-production support and the opportunity to present their work at some of the EBA partners’ venues or festivals.
STARTING WITH THE LIMBS draws on the experiences of artists using prosthetics or mobility devices to create scenographic elements which blur body and landscape, generate & amplify movement possibilities. A new cross-disciplinary, international collaboration between choreographer Annie Hanauer and l’Autre Maison.
HORN FUCKERS, by Diana Niepce, thinks of the body as an extraordinary event. In a post-apocalyptic universe, the piece based on the chaos theory works on loneliness and exposes the body in a state of contemplation and defies the viewer to reconsider conventions and social norms.
LAYERS, by Katarzyna Żeglicka, is a project of radical imagination, hope, and utopian reality, rooted in anarchy understood as the building of community and love. It’s a story about emancipated women fighting against oppression; about dreams and visions of transforming the world, grounded in a feminist-queer genealogy.
In AD Orchestra (Audio Description Orchestra), Sindri Runudde explores visual interpretation as a medium for creating dance and live performance. Together with sound designer Dehendrik Lechat Willekens, they will dive into a landscape of words and description practices, questioning how we can listen to dance and hear movements. Let’s awaken the soul within visual interpretation.
