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Describing Dance Panel

Dec 10, 2022 | 4:00PM
Online

CURATOR
Arts Assembly

A conversation about dance, access and archiving performance.

Arts Assembly and Dancemakers have partnered to host a conversation on dance access, in particular for the blind / low vision community. Arts Assembly’s recent series two part series The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home will be explored through this conversation, emphasizing the process and possibilities of programming and supporting inclusive dance, performance and visual art practices.

This talk is the launch of Arts Assembly’s archive recordings of The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home which was intentionally designed with dance descriptions by Andrea Cownden in consultation with Amy Amantea.

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Inspiration for this work includes:

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Artists

Arts Assembly

Arts Assembly is a not-for-profit, community-centric arts organization that emphasizes artistic collaboration.

Amy Amantea

Amy Amantea (she/her) is a white settler on the stolen lands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-waututh first peoples.

Harmanie Rose

Harmanie Rose is a disabled dance artist living and working on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

Jose Migeul (Miggy) Esteban

Jose Miguel (Miggy) Esteban is a dance/movement artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto.

Sophie Corriveau

Sophie Corriveau has worked in the field of dance as a performer, choreographer, teacher, rehearsal director and artistic consultant.

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