"WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT ACCESS?"
Moving Ableisms and Accessibilities in Dance and Performance
Lectures * Workshops * Performances * Interventions
with Marc Brew, Tanja Erhart, Raina Hofer, Juli Reinartz, Steven Solbrig and others
April 14 - 17, 2025, Center for Contemporary Dance
This week invites you to discuss questions of accessibility, ableism and diversity in the fields of dance and performance. Who has access to stages, audiences and training? Who is considered "able" to perform professionally? And how do we all shape such performances on an ongoing basis?
Lectures, workshops, performances and interventions by and with guests, students and teachers offer the opportunity to encounter and engage with diverse physicalities and thus opportunities to question, problematize and expand common notions of "the norm".
This week invites a sharing questions of accessibility, ableism and diversity in dance and performance. Who has access to stages, audiences, education? Who is considered as being 'able' to perform professionally? And how do we all continuously co-produce such notions?
Lectures, workshops, performances and interventions by and with guests, students and teachers open up encounters and engagements with diverse corporealities as a way to challenge, to problematize and to expand common notions of 'the norm'.
Language: German and English.
Admission: Free, registration is required.
Languages spoken: DE & EN
Admission: Free, registration is required.
Admission: Free, registration is required.
Accessibility: All rooms are located on the first floor and are wheelchair accessible. A barrier-free toilet is located next to Studio 2. Various seating options and a relaxation room are available. Please let us know your individual access needs: koordination-zzt@hfmt-koeln.de.
Accessibility: All spaces arelocated on the ground floor and can be accessed with a wheel chair. A barrier free toilet is located next to studio 2. There will be a variety of seating options and a resting area. Please contact us about your particular access needs via koordination-zzt@hfmt-koeln.de.
Venue:
Center for Contemporary Dance, Turmstraße 3-5, 50733 Cologne-Nippes
The ZZT is easily accessible by subway (Florastraße stop). There are no exclusive parking spaces available for the event.
Location: CCD (Centre for Contemporary Dance), Turmstrasse 3-5, 50733 Cologne Nippes.
CCD can be reached via subway (Florastraße). There is no parking space available exclusively for the event.
Program overview - Overview
More information as well as biographies of the participants can be found here.
More information as well as biographies of the guests can be found here.
April 14
08.30 - 9.00 Arrival
(8.50 Welcoming Tilmann Claus, Rector and Dean's Office FB7)
09.00 - 9.45 Cripping Perception - Aesthetics & Access in the Performing Arts - Opening Lecture with Steven Solbrig
10.00 - 12.00 luscious dancing access - pleasurable accessibility in dance
Workshop with Tanja Erhart + Raina Hofer
10.00 - 12.00 Collective Resting Areas by and with students
12.30 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing. Reflection and exchange
April 15
09.00 - 9.30 Tune-in with students
10.00 - 12.00 Inclusive Training Fundamentals, workshop with Marc Brew
10.00 - 12.00 X Ways of Working with Crip Time, workshop with Juli Reinartz
10.00 - 12.00 Collective Resting Areas by and with students
12.15 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing. Reflection and exchange
18:00 - 19:00 Negotiating Disability in Performance, Lecture Performance with Marc Brew
April 16
09:00 - 9:30 Tune-in with students
10:00 - 12:00 Creating Inclusive Dance, workshop with Marc Brew
10.00 - 12.00 X Ways of Working with Crip Time, workshop with Juli Reinartz
10.00 - 12.00 Collective Resting Areas by and with students
12.15 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing. Reflection and exchange
18:00 - 19:00 All late, all babe, lecture performance with Juli Reinartz
April 17
09:00 - 9:30 Tune-in with students
10.00 - 12.00 What's up, next and beyond? Open sharing and discussion with guests
Mod.: Seven Solbrig
12.30 - 13.30 Gathering, Reflecting, Sharing... and Closing. Reflection and exchange
Anmeldung WORKSHOPS: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/feaba8b2d0089e6707fc9bc0ca20a524-1133157
Registration PERFORMANCES & ROUND TABLE: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/f7c57c45f6af1b9ee7db434d31d0bedf-1133177