Artists, Authors, Activists, Dance Companies, and Dancers
Companies: Candoco dance company (UK)
Axis Dance Company (USA)
Allegro Dance Project (KY)
Dancing Wheels (Cleveland, Ohio)
Restless (Australia)
Ruckus (Australia)
DanceAbility International (USA)
Dance for PD and Mark Morris (USA)
Wobbly Dance (USA)
Claire Cunningham (Scotland)
Mark Brew and his' Brew Band (USA)
Kinetic Light (USA)
Viktoria Modesta
Heidi Laskey (USA)
Bill Shannon/Crutch Master
DV8 Theatre (UK)
Kayla Hamilton (NYC)
Blind Men Dancing (UK)
David Toole
Petra Kuppers
Tobin Siebers
Lennard Davis
Eli Clare
Lydia X. Z. Brown
Simi Linton
Axis Dance Company (USA)
Allegro Dance Project (KY)
Dancing Wheels (Cleveland, Ohio)
Restless (Australia)
Ruckus (Australia)
DanceAbility International (USA)
Dance for PD and Mark Morris (USA)
Wobbly Dance (USA)
Claire Cunningham (Scotland)
Mark Brew and his' Brew Band (USA)
Kinetic Light (USA)
Viktoria Modesta
Heidi Laskey (USA)
Bill Shannon/Crutch Master
DV8 Theatre (UK)
Kayla Hamilton (NYC)
Blind Men Dancing (UK)
David Toole
Petra Kuppers
Tobin Siebers
Lennard Davis
Eli Clare
Lydia X. Z. Brown
Simi Linton
Links to Articles, Youtube, and TedTalks
Disability and Dance Readings: (VERY selected...I have a ton more just ask!)
OSU’s Composing Access for Conference Design (SUPER practical for presenters/teachers)
https://u.osu.edu/composingaccess/
Look up Universal Design for Education
https://www.washington.edu/doit/universal-design-education-principles-and-applications
Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and non-disabled dancers by Adam Benjamin
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Entrance-Practice-Disabled-Non-Disabled/dp/0415251443
Teaching Dance to Senior Adults by Liz Lerman
https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Dance-Senior-Adults-Lerman/dp/0398066418/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529585905&sr=1-1&keywords=teaching+dance+to+senior+adults
"I Dance Because I Can" by Alice Sheppard
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/disability-dance-alice-sheppard.html?fbclid=IwAR2tAYyrHFtu2mrBHhqkVGQ0KGozrG8zt5Y-DjVhnLmVvhDbPaYhzq-3Rmg
“Dance and disability: the dancer, the viewer and the presumption of difference”
by Sarah Whatley. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14647890701272639?journalCode=crid20
Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) by Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander
https://www.press.umich.edu/95111/bodies_in_commotion
Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Siebers
https://www.press.umich.edu/1134097/disability_aesthetics
Written on the Body: Conversation about Disability (from the alliance for inclusion in the arts)
http://inclusioninthearts.org/projects/written-on-the-body-a-conversation-about-disability/
Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge by Petra Kuppers
https://books.google.com/books/about/Disability_and_Contemporary_Performance.html?id=t4eTesgfs-wC
Youtube/Ted Talks:Stella Young: I’m Not your Inspiration Thank you Very Much:
https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_much
Amiee Mullins: My Twelve Pairs of Legs:
https://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics
Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems palsy is just one:
https://www.ted.com/talks/maysoon_zayid_i_got_99_problems_palsy_is_just_one
OSU’s Composing Access for Conference Design (SUPER practical for presenters/teachers)
https://u.osu.edu/composingaccess/
Look up Universal Design for Education
https://www.washington.edu/doit/universal-design-education-principles-and-applications
Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and non-disabled dancers by Adam Benjamin
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Entrance-Practice-Disabled-Non-Disabled/dp/0415251443
Teaching Dance to Senior Adults by Liz Lerman
https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Dance-Senior-Adults-Lerman/dp/0398066418/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529585905&sr=1-1&keywords=teaching+dance+to+senior+adults
"I Dance Because I Can" by Alice Sheppard
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/disability-dance-alice-sheppard.html?fbclid=IwAR2tAYyrHFtu2mrBHhqkVGQ0KGozrG8zt5Y-DjVhnLmVvhDbPaYhzq-3Rmg
“Dance and disability: the dancer, the viewer and the presumption of difference”
by Sarah Whatley. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14647890701272639?journalCode=crid20
Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) by Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander
https://www.press.umich.edu/95111/bodies_in_commotion
Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Siebers
https://www.press.umich.edu/1134097/disability_aesthetics
Written on the Body: Conversation about Disability (from the alliance for inclusion in the arts)
http://inclusioninthearts.org/projects/written-on-the-body-a-conversation-about-disability/
Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge by Petra Kuppers
https://books.google.com/books/about/Disability_and_Contemporary_Performance.html?id=t4eTesgfs-wC
Youtube/Ted Talks:Stella Young: I’m Not your Inspiration Thank you Very Much:
https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_much
Amiee Mullins: My Twelve Pairs of Legs:
https://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics
Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems palsy is just one:
https://www.ted.com/talks/maysoon_zayid_i_got_99_problems_palsy_is_just_one