Articles tagged ‘Korea International Accessible Dance Festival’

Two ballet dancers wearing white tendu to the side. The man is behind the woman. The backdrop is blue and green.

Sharing Disabled Lives and Stories Onstage

Luda Lee, the choreographer and director of Black Toe Dance Company in South Korea, describes the process of creating “Trialogue,” a piece that explores the stories of three dancers with disabilities.

Erin hugs themself into a ball, balancing on their butt onstage. They are wearing a red leotard with red hair in a bun.

Circus Centering Disability

Erin Ball, Vanessa Furlong, and April Hubbard, who perform as LEGacy Circus in Canada, describe their use of leg attachments, mobility aids, and traditional and non-traditional circus apparatuses in their piece “The World at Our Feet.”

Two wheelchair dancers are in the foreground on stage and a clump of colorfully dancers make a shape together in the background.

Developing Disability Dance in South Korea

Young Mook Choi and Nanyoung Sim of Light Sound Friends, an organization in South Korea that supports dancers with disabilities, share their myriad programs that are changing the landscape of disability dance in South Korea.