Lusi Insiati: “To Be Accepted as We Are”

"My dream is for my disability friends to access any type of dance and that we can be accepted as we are." Lusi Insiati, a dancer in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, shares her experience finding and pursuing dance through the inclusive dance troupe Nalitari.

May 2, 2022  |  Read Article

Hanna Cormick: “Not What My Body Does, But What My Body Is”

"My work is no longer about what my body produces; it's not what my body does, but what my body is." Australian performance artist Hanna Cormick discusses how her artistic practice has become a reclamation of body through radical visibility.

April 25, 2022  |  Read Article

Kazuyo Morita: “We Need Role Models”

"We need role models in this field so there's somebody who other disabled people can copy or aspire to be, but I don't think that's possible unless more dancers come into this field. I personally think it's very important to establish the status of disabled dancers and train more disabled dancers." Kazuyo Morita, a dancer and actress from Osaka, Japan, shares how crucial role models are to motivating people with disabilities to try dance.

April 18, 2022  |  Read Article

Redouan “Redo” Ait Chitt: “I Want to Inspire People with Good Dance”

"I don’t really mind being called inspiring, but I hope the dance itself was inspiring as much as the dancer onstage. I want to inspire people with good dance." Netherlands-based b-boy and ILL-Abilities member Redouan “Redo” Ait Chitt shares how what drives him is to be a good dancer, period.

April 11, 2022  |  Read Article

How Cultural Production Functions

Ninoska M’bewe Escobar, a dance scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance at the University of New Mexico, discusses her focus on bringing more awareness to the legacy of Pearl Primus, as well as why it is important to teach the history of dance forms alongside technique.

March 21, 2022  |  Read Article