Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Accessible Arts
• Arts Access Victoria
• Arts Access Society Inc. (Victoria)
• "Back to Back Theatre - Website - Personnel, captured 2008"
  Back to Back Theatre 'Personnel' page, captured 2008 - links to biographies for the Ensemble including Mark Deans, Rita Halabarec, Nicki Holland, Sonia Teuben, Simon Laherty, Scott Price, Sarah Mainwaring, along with a link to the Creative and Management Team, including Bruce Gladwin, Alice Nash, Marcia Ferguson, Pauline Cady, Stacey Baldwin, Sue Hartigan
• "The Other Film Festival WA Program 2022"
  The Other Film Festival WA Program 2022 – Australian work screened includes Shadow (52:00) Bruce Gladwin; Different Lens: Julia Hales (2:20) Frank Carroll; Different Lens: Nang Nguyen (2:20) Frank Carroll; Evacuate (2:00) Gaele Sobott; First Responders. Breanna: Relationships (2:09) Back to Back Theatre - Ahmarnya Price; Gemma (5:17) Rafael Star; I Was Born (Misfit) (5:10) Gaele Sobott; Price Versus Penny Arcade (9:28) Back to Back Theatre - Tamara Searle; Resource Daddies (7:40) Nemeses - Vidya Rajan and Alistair Baldwin; Silent Dance (4:00) Rohin John; Sparkles (12:49) Jacqueline Pelczar and Tina Fielding ; Yulubidyi (12:48) Curtis Taylor and Nathan Mewett
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2012"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2012 - Australian works screened include YOU SEE ME (2011)Phil Heuzenroeder 9min; WHO IS HE? (2011) Costa Athanassiou and Alex Litsoudis 6min; BEAUTIFUL (2010) Genevieve Clay-Smith 13min; 3.15 TO BRUNSWICK (2012) Gemma Falk 3min; THE DEMOCRATIC SET (2012) Bruce Gladwin and Back to Back Theatre 10min; JUST BE FRANK (2010) Elise Bialyew 15min
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2018"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2018 – Australian words screened include The Milky Pop Kid 2016 | 7min Johanna Garvin; Paul 2017 | 5min Kasimir Burgess; GEN(d)ERATION: ROMANY AND SASCHA 2018 | 3min Akasha Temple; Yulubidyi Until The End 2017 | 12min Nathan Mewett and Curtis Taylor; ODDLANDS 2017 | 28min Bruce Gladwin; re-cal-i-brate 2016 | 6min Brendan O’Connell; Halloween 2018 | 2min Thomas Iacono; A Royal Star 2014 | 17min Nicola Byrnes and Neil Triffett; Stim Your Heart Out 2018 | 4min Akasha Temple; Lipstick Fights 2017 | 3min Jon Mitchell; I see, You say... 2018 | 10min Ramas McRae; Jaspar 2018 | 7min Zoe Glen-Norman; All of You TV Show 2015 | 11min Artlife and Lindsay Cox; CAE Workshop films 2018 | 20min David Baker, Stacey Christie, Shea MacDonough, Shanah Robison, Philippa Nichol, Imogen Newhouse, Jonathon Goodfellow, Justin O’Brien; Love You Till I Die 2017 | 2min Rudely Interrupted; Gaslit 2018 | 9min Naomi Chainey; Defiant Lives 2016 | 1hour 24min Sarah Barton; Life is Short, Time is 2016 | 4min Constant aka LISTIC and Vanna Seang; Jeremy the Dud 2017 | 21min Ryan Chamley; The Holden Family 2014 | 4min Alex Skaftouros and Lindsay Cox; RADIAL - No Limits 2017 | 4min Festival & Theater Thikwa, Tamara Searle and Rhian Hinkley
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2004-05"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2004-2005 - discusses letter from chair of council, letter from CEO, corporate overview, year in review, goals, financial statements, analysis of funding analysis and grants list, including funding for key organisations, new work, presentation and promotion, audience participation (with publication “Access All Areas”), skills and arts development with Arts Access partnering with Helicon Dance to provide 10 workshops in Princess Alexandra hospital Mental Health Service to find out which arts the community members wanted to pursue with a reference group including the University of Queensland and funding for Back to Back theatre to perform Small Metal Objects, in collaboration with sound artist Hugh Covill, animator Rhian Hinkley, director/designer Bruce Gladwin to shed light on, provoke and transform society, and to position artistic creativity as an integral part of the nation’s agenda. Triennial funding to Arts Access Australia (formerly known as Disability in the Arts Disadvantage in the Arts Australia—DADAA)
• Bruce Gladwin
• ACE Magazine
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1988"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1988 - includes Part 1 Artistic Report (Summary of year's activities and evaluation); Part 2 Report on Riverina Project; Part 3 Report on RBS Project; Part 4 Report on Restructuring of Project; Part 5 Report on Melbourne Trip
• "Back to Back Theatre established"
  The theatre company Back to Back was established in 1987. They are a drama group comprising artists with intellectual disabilities who have since toured both nationally and internationally in mainstream Australian theatre.
• "Back to Back Theatre - Lady Eats Apple - Webpage"
  Back to Back Theatre 'Lady Eats Apple'' Webpage - reads, in part "We are finite in an infinite world – the punchline of existence is how little of it we’re given. Join us on a journey of mythical proportions with Lady Eats Apple."
• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - Food Court (2008), uploaded 2016"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - Food Court (2008) - reads, in part "Set in the lush minimalism of an illuminated white void, the story of one woman’s humiliation is played out in a psychological space constructed from light and sound. Luminously fragile, FOOD COURT is a near death experience in a suburban wonderland where a small fatality of dignity takes place between The Asian Hut and The Juice Bar."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Ganesh Versus the Third Reich -(2011), uploaded 2013"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - Ganesh vs the Third Reich (2011) - reads, in part "GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH is poignant, beautiful, disarming, full of vulnerability and sly transparency."
• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - Small Metal Objects (2005), uploaded 2016"
  Back to Back Theatre YouTube - Small Metal Objects (2005) - reads, in part "An ingenious theatrical gem, small metal objects unfolds amid the pedestrian traffic against the backdrop of the city. On a raised seating bank with individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired in to an intensely personal drama being played out somewhere in the crowd."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Website - About, captured 2008"
  Back to Back Theatre 'About' page, captured 2008 - reads, in part "Back To Back Theatre is a pioneering contemporary theatre company based in Geelong with a full-time ensemble of five actors considered to have an intellectual disability."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Website - BriefHistory, captured 2008"
  Back to Back Theatre 'Brief History' page, with PDF document of history captured 2008 - reads, in part "Back to Back Theatre evolved out a community arts project that began in Geelong in 1987. The project included disability service providers Corilong and Karingal, the Geelong Children's and Youth Support Services (CYSS) and Deakin University's Performing Arts Course (attached to the Mill Theatre) Individual artists and other members of the Geelong community were also involved." Includes list of Professional Productions (including ‘Big Bag’ 1987-88; ‘Stinking Houses’ 1989; ‘The Peg Machine’ 1990; ‘Everything and the Mermaid’ 1990, ‘I Don’t Want to Live in Lara Anymore 1991; ‘Yell Blue Murder’ 1991; ‘Woodenhead’ 1992; ‘The Adventures of Bobbi Dazzler’ 1992; ‘Voices of Desire’ 1993; ‘Freak Show with Circus Oz 1994; Back to Back in Shorts 1995; Road Movie with Melbourne Workers Theatre 1996; Minds Eye with Handspan Visual Theatre 1996; Peter Pan with Arena Theatre Company 1997; Mr September 1997; Boomtown with Snuff Puppets 1998; Mental 1999; Dog Farm 2000; Pornstar 2001; Soft 2002; Cow 2003; Small Metal Objects 2005), and Community Productions (including Ritual with Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College 1998; Push Push 1999; Drag Racers in Love with Nelson Park School 1999; Arnold 2000 Fishman with Theatre of Speed 2001; Inside the Angel House with Theatre of Speed 2003; Minotaur with Theatre of Speed 2005; DMI with Theatre of Speed 2007; Pod Residences with Night School, Awakenings Festival, Brr Theatre Group, Ants Pantz Arts, Break of Day Players, Theatre of Speed, Arts Action and Amalgamation Festival 2003-2006), and films (including Mullet (1995), White Maggots (1996), Spill (1997), Mark Deans Human Cannonball (1998), Underpants (1999), Backscratch (2000), Porn Star (2002), Rhian Hinkley Theatre of Speed vs. BOZ'n'HOK, vs. HUGE COVILL (2004), D9 (2005), Out of our Minds (2001)).
• “Carriageworks ‘New Normal’ program plan to commission ten new works presents three performances - Lady Eats Apple (Back to Back Theatre, 2017), Off the Record (Force Majeure, Dance Integrated Australia, 2016), Simple Infinity (Urban Theatre Projects, 2016)"
  New Normal is Carriageworks “national strategy for the development of disability arts practice.” Carriageworks state an aim to “commission ten new major works across contemporary performance, music, dance and visual arts.” As part of the program, Back to Back Theatres’ Lady Eats Apple (2017), Force Majeure and Dance Integrated Australia’s Off the Record (2016), and Urban Theatre Projects’ Simple Infinity (2016) each presented at Carriageworks. Since then, there has been no update on Carriageworks’ goal, suggesting the program may have fallen short of its initial objectives.
• "Bree Hadley (2020) Allyship in disability arts: Roles, relationships, and practices. Research in Drama Education, 25(2), pp. 178-194.”
  "In this article, I propose that investigation of allies, ally skills, and allyship in disability arts is overdue. I articulate some of ways in which non-arts approaches to allyship need to be adapted to meet the needs of disabled artists, given the aesthetic as well as professional and social dimensions of allyship distinctive to disability arts. In doing so, I highlight the need for new theory, terminology, and frameworks to define the different approaches to allyship, developed by different artsworkers, operating in different roles, across the different domains of disability arts and/or arts and disability practice."
• "Carriageworks (2015) NSW Arts and Disability Partnership Launched at Carriageworks Including $100,000 Support for Two Major New Works. Carriageworks, 30 January 2015"
  Reads, in part "Sydney, Australia: The NSW Minister for Disability Services, Minister John Ajaka MLC, today launched an extension of the NSW Arts & Disability Partnership, announcing funding of $475,000 for 2015 to support four programs that promote social inclusion through the arts and disability sector. The Partnership includes $100,000 support for Carriageworks to commission two major new works developed by artists with disability in collaboration with NSW arts companies and artists."
• "Bree Hadley (2014) Disability, Public Space Performance, and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers. London: Palgrave Macmillan."
  "Why would disabled people want to re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the everyday encounters in public spaces and places that cast them as ugly, strange, stare-worthy? In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who do exactly this. Operating in a live or performance art paradigm, artists like James Cunningham (Australia), Noemi Lakmaier (UK/Austria), Alison Jones (UK), Aaron Williamson (UK), Katherine Araniello (UK), Bill Shannon (US), Back to Back Theatre (Australia), Rita Marcalo (UK), Liz Crow (UK) and Mat Fraser (UK) all use installation and public space performance practices to re-stage their disabled identities in risky, guerilla-style works that remind passersby of their own complicity in the daily social drama of disability. In doing so, they draw spectators' attention to their own role in constructing Western concepts of disability. This book investigates the way each of us can become unconscious performers in a daily social drama that positions disability people as figures of tragedy, stigma or pity, and the aesthetics, politics and ethics of performance practices that intervene very directly in this drama. It constructs a framework for understanding the way spectators are positioned in these practices, and how they contribute to public sphere debates about disability today."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Small Metal Objects - Education Pack"
  Back to Back Theatre education pack for Small Metal Objects (2005) - includes information about artistic team, bios, show synopsis, characters, and key themes
• "Back to Back Theatre - Information Pack"
• "Back to Back Theatre - Super Discount - Promotional Flyer"