Disabled people use dance as a lens into shared experience

Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 11:35 am
Press Release: DANZ

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday 14th May 2012

Disabled people use dance as a lens into shared human experiences

With Three Clicks exhibition provides a unique insight, understanding and knowledge of disability through the stories of six disabled people who dance.

With Three Clicks
12 – 17 June 2012
Toi Poneke Gallery, 61 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington

In December 2010, DANZ launched the NZ Disability and Dance Strategy, ‘Would You Like This Dance’ at the International Day of Disabled People. The key recommendations of the strategy are visibility, connectedness, skill development and viability.

With Three Clicks addresses the issues identified in the strategy in an innovative and public way by telling non-disabled people about disabled people’s lives and by challenging them to more deeply explore their perceptions of dance for disabled people.

Six participants representing diversity in our culture and dance genre participated in the project. These participants not only provided the raw material used to develop the project but were closely involved throughout the whole creative process, ultimately creating their own digital story. Each explored three topics through digital photography. The photos were chosen by each participant to represent the moments and insights from their lives as their interpretation of the three topics of
I Do, I Move, I Feel.

The digital stories, photos and albums presented in this exhibition are a summary of their stories.

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