Dance artist Devin Hill reflects on their undergraduate experience as a student with a disability and how institutions need to start taking responsibility for making their dance programs accessible and available to students with disabilities.
Jasmiina Sipilä is the leading teacher in the dance department of Vocational College Live in Helsinki, Finland, where they offer the only professional dance degree for dancers with special needs in the country.
Rhona Coughlan and Kaylie Streit describe Inclusive Dance Cork, a professional dance training program in Cork, Ireland, for people with and without disabilities who want to engage with contemporary inclusive dance.
Silva Laukkanen discusses how the disability dance field is behind in terms of education, and how Art Spark Texas’ research project is assessing what existing opportunities are out there and what more needs to be done.
Emily Heath, a dance student at Bennington College, reflects on their ongoing experience of anxiety and how showing up with anxiety in dance spaces is an ongoing negotiation.