Announcing Europe Beyond Access Co-productions

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, where the theme for this year is ‘Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future’. As such, it is the perfect day to announce the four projects selected from Europe Beyond Access (EBA)'s open call for co-production launched last spring. All these projects are led by artists with disabilities and they will have co-production support and the opportunity to present their work at some of the EBA partners’ venues or festivals.

After receiving more than 150 applications from across Europe, the following selected disabled-led projects will be supported through EBA, and will present their works at some of our partner venues and festivals:

• STARTING WITH THE LIMBS draws on the experiences of artists using prosthetics or mobility devices to create scenographic elements which blur body and landscape and generate & amplify movement possibilities. A new cross-disciplinary, international collaboration between choreographer Annie Hanauer and l'Autre Maison.

• HORN FUCKERS, by Diana Niepce, thinks of the body as an extraordinary event. In a post-apocalyptic universe, the piece based on the chaos theory works on loneliness and exposes the body in a state of contemplation and defies the viewer to reconsider conventions and social norms. 

• LAYERS, by Katarzyna Żeglicka, is a project of radical imagination, hope, and utopian reality, rooted in anarchy understood as the building of community and love. It’s a story about emancipated women fighting against oppression; about dreams and visions of transforming the world, grounded in a feminist-queer genealogy. 

• In AD Orchestra (Audio Description Orchestra), Sindri Runudde explores visual interpretation as a medium for creating dance and live performance. Together with sound designer Dehendrik Lechat Willekens, they will dive into a landscape of words and description practices, questioning how we can listen to dance and hear movements. Let's awaken the soul within visual interpretation. 

Europe Beyond Access is co-founded by the European Union through Creative Europe, in collaboration with Skånes Dansteater (Swedish), Centrum Kultury ZAMEK w Poznaniu (Poland), CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (Norway), Culturgest (Portugal), Holland Dance Festival (The Netherlands), Kampnagel - Internationales Zentrum für schönere Künste (Germany), Mercat de les Flors (Catalunia), ONASSIS FOUNDATION (Greece), ORIENTE OCCIDENTE (Italy), Project Arts Centre (Ireland).

IETM supports Europe Beyond Access as an official Dissemination Associate. Discover more here.

Photo Credit: Caroline Minjolle