Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "Let Me See - review by Keiran Finnane 2015, captured 2016"
  Describes InCite Arts ‘Starts with D Performance Ensemble’ members Tiffany Malthouse, Matt Woodham, Brandon Williams, Martin Armstead and director Kat Worth’s production of ‘ Meet You at the Edge’, as part of ‘Let Me See’ produced by Red Hot Arts Central Australia at Araluen Centre for the Arts, including film, use of audio description, writing, and choreography
• “Restless in Alice – An update on Incite Arts’ collaboration with Restless Dance Theatre 2015, captured 2016”
  News article reads, in part, "Restless Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director Michelle Ryan is visiting Alice Springs next week to work with InCite Arts and the ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble. Adelaide based Restless Dance Theatre is Australia’s leading dance company working with young disabled and non-disabled people to create dance theatre and run workshop programs."
• "Jodee Mundy Collaborations - Imagined Touch - Documentary"
  Reads, in part "When two deafblind women Heather Lawson and Michelle Stevens approached director Jodee Mundy to make a show, they pulled off the impossible. They turned their small community performance into IMAGINED TOUCH, a theatre production that became a sell-out success at the Sydney Festival, going on to win at the Victorian Green Room Awards. This documentary has followed Imagined Touch with cameras from the very beginning."
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2017-18"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2017-2018 – discusses Rawcus and Julia Hales as examples of highquality work - reads, in part "Through our Disability Action Plan we continued to build the capability of our staff, including Easy English and the continuity of our audio description group. "
• "Rawcus Archive 2013-2024, captured 2024"
  Rawcus Archive 2013-2024, captured 2024 - links to a decade's news and events
• "CreativeAustralia/AustraliaCouncil - Website - NameChange 2023"
  The website reads “On Thursday 24 August 2023 the Australia Council became Creative Australia; a bigger, bolder champion and investor in arts and creativity”
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2015-16"
  Australia Council - Annual Report 2015-16 - discusses year in review, strategy, funding, and key facts, including "18% identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 6% identified as experiencing disability", and running Sync Leadership Program for artists with disability
• “Australia Council - Events, captured 1998”
  Australia Council (Creative Australia) events captured December 1998, including Online Australia Day, National Arts Awareness Research and Strategy, Next Stage - The Performing Arts in the 21st Century Forum, 30th Anniversary, Media Releases and Artforce
• “Australia Council - People with a disability - attendance at cultural events 2008"
  Australia Council - People with a disability - attendance at cultural events 2008 - reads, in part "A 2003 survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that over 40 per cent of people with a disability went to the cinema. According to the 2003 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers, one in five people in Australia reported that they had a disability which restricted their everyday activities and which had lasted, or was expected to last, for at least six months."
• “Australia Council - People with a disability - artists 2003”
  Sourced from 'Australia Council- Don’t give up your day job: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia' (Throsby and Hollister 2003) based on 2002 Survey - The website reads “The 2002 Australia Council artists survey, Don't give up your day job collected information relating to practising professional artists in Australia…..According to Don't give up your day job, about 10 per cent of practising professional artists live with a disability.”
• "Accessible Arts - Newsletter 2015-2016"
  Accessible Arts - Newsletter 2015-2016
• "Accessible Arts - Newsletter 2010-2012"
  Accessible Arts - Newsletter 2010-2012
• "Accessible Arts - Newsletter 2007-2008"
  Accessible Arts - Newsletter 2007-2008
• "Accessible Arts - Events - 2022"
  Accessible Arts - Events 2022 - reads, in part "We’re presenting an innovative and free event series in 2022 in response to rapidly changing environments and increasing sector demand. Due to Covid-19, all events will take place online until further notice. These events are free to attend, accessible and encourage discussion and participation through a Q&A platform."
• "Restless Dance - Master Classes"
  Restless Dance Theatre website, 'Master Classes,' captured 2020 – reads, in part, "In 2019 Restless Impulse dancers and Company dancers will take part in workshops with Sydney Dance Company and Bangarra Dance Company."
• "Restless Dance - Links Workshop"
  Restless Dance Theatre website, 'Links' captured 2020 – reads, in part, "Restless Dance Theatre presents Links, a dance theatre workshop for 8-14 year olds. The workshops involve creating movement in a safe and fun environment where the participants’ ideas become dance. No experience is necessary, just the desire to take part. Workshops are open to people with and without disability and are led by highly experienced tutors in an accessible space."
• "Restless Dance - Past Shows 2012 - 2016"
  Restless Dance Website, information about past shows 2012-2016, captured 2020 – information about Debut 5: the dancers direct (five short works from Youth/Senior ensembles), In The Balance (at Adelaide Cabaret Festival) Touched (directed by Michelle Ryan with Youth ensemble), What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (directed by Emma Stokes with the Senior ensemble), Naturally (directed by Michelle Ryan with Youth ensemble), Salt (touring work developed by Rob Tannion), Debut 4 – the dancers direct 2013 (short works by five company members), high voltage 2012 (short work directed by Lorcan Hopper, as part of Debut 3 – the dancers direct and toured to Port Moresby) and Howling Like A Wolf (creative via collaborations between Restless and Melbourne based Rawcus Theatre led by Kate Sulan).
• "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2022"
  "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2022 - links to 'About' page which reads in part "Fusion Theatre is an inclusive company based in Dandenong, in the south east of Melbourne, Australia. The membership of the company reflects the rich diversity of our community," and pages on Governance and Support, Ensembles, Our Work, Diversity Workshop, and Media
• "Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop, captured 2022"
  Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop page, captured 2022 - reads, in part "Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop is a professional learning experience that explores themes of inclusion, diversity and social justice. Through applied theatre, drama, and stories, participants are provided with opportunities to reflect on how they might identify barriers to inclusion and contribute to a more inclusive society."
• "Second Echo Ensemble - People, captured 2024"
  Second Echo website 'People' page, captured 2024, with information about Ensemble, Provocateurs, and Board, and crew
• "Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre - About Us, captured 2019"
  Webpage reads, in part "Sprung Integrated Dance Theatre Inc is a not for profit community organisation providing dance and theatre training and workshops for people with a disability. We use a collaborative and disability-led process to develop inspiring dance theatre works that explore the human condition and promote a more inclusive society."
• "Tutti Arts - Website - History, captured 2008"
  Tutti Arts Website History captured 2008 - reads, in part "“Founded by South Australian playwright/composer Pat Rix, Tutti began as a small singing group for people with an intellectual disability at Minda Inc in August 1997."
• "Quippings presents Risky Business"
  Reads, in part "Risky Business is the Quippings crew daredevils taking over the Melba Spiegeltent with our cabaret wordfest game show extravaganza!"
• “Creative Australia’s National Arts and Disability Awards are awarded to their inaugural recipients in 2019”
  Creative Australia’s National Arts and Disability Awards were first awarded to their inaugural recipients in 2019. The three awards go to an emerging or early career artist, and established artist, and someone who’s proven themselves as a leader in disability arts. From 2019 to 2023, the recipients span across artforms and the country.
• "Kate Maguire-Rosier (2016). Moving “Misfits.” Australasian Drama Studies, (69), 29–55. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.590682266081795"
  Reads, in part "In Dianne Reid's recent work Dance Interrogations (a Diptych), performed as part of the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival by Reid and collaborating artist Melinda Smith, spectators had no seats but rather roamed, observing two mature dancers. In this article, I explore Reid and Smith's live performance, a combination of structured movement improvisation and screendance, as a provocation of the relationship between movement and agency. I address the theatrical event through the multifaceted lens of the performers' experiences, spectators' responses and my own observations."