Access & Care

With our aim to steer the nation­al dia­logue on dance prac­tices towards true equi­ty, access and care are nec­es­sary tools in cre­at­ing uni­ty as a net­work of dance com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try.

• Chore­o­graph­ing Dis­abil­i­ty Jus­tice: Dance­mak­ers Antoine Hunter and Lau­rel Law­son, arti­cle writ­ten by Jer­ron Her­man
• Hear­ing Dance: The Pow­er of Audio Descrip­tion, arti­cle writ­ten by Sarah Cecil­ia Bukows­ki
• 10 Prin­ci­ples of Dis­abil­i­ty Jus­tice
• Indige­nous Land and Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Acknowl­edge­ments for Insti­tu­tions — This resource has been devel­oped to iden­ti­fy the com­po­nents that can con­tribute to a Land Acknowl­edge­ment that ini­ti­ates steps towards mean­ing­ful and equi­table rela­tion­ship build­ing with Indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties and estab­lish­es com­mit­ments that direct­ly lead to change.
• The Con­tact Improv Con­sent Cul­ture Blog pub­lish­es con­tent that inquires into and sup­ports the build­ing of con­sent-based cul­ture in con­tact impro­vi­sa­tion.
• Bal­anc­ing Act sup­ports artist care­givers work­ing in the per­form­ing arts in Cana­da by advo­cat­ing for greater equal­i­ty, acces­si­bil­i­ty, and inclu­sion in the work­force.

Please send us the tools you lean on to address inequities in our ongo­ing work so we may add to this list and share with­in our net­work.