Senior Dance Artist Hannah shares about her journey into leadership, the importance of representation for learning-Disabled people, and how she balances her roles as a performer with Stopgap, an advocate, and a board member for This Is Unlimited.
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Full research findings published - the leading Disabled dance organisations of The Working Group, urge the sector to address barriers to progression & employment in dance for Disabled people.
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The second section of Artificial Things is where everything gets a bit manic – the storm before the calm as it were. In this section there is a phrase created by Laura, which has been made into a unison section – otherwise known as the chicken phrase.
During creation at Zinc Arts, Andy Higgs, composer for the final section of Artificial Things, has set up his own studio next to the dancers to start creating the music. He has written a blog about the experience.
Dave writes about returning to Stopgap to work on Artificial Things
Chris has been working on developing his character in Artificial Things
Amy, David and Chris write about working with Jozef Frucek from RootlessRoot.
Lucy talks about what Yoshifumi is developing in the studio.
Dance writer Donald Hutera writes about Stopgap's transition from Vicki to Lucy's Artistic Directorship in 2011