Making a Difference
Making a Difference is a Berlin-based network founded in 2018 to promote the independent work of disabled, d/Deaf and chronically ill artists in dance. Eight organisations have joined forces to create high-quality, accessible training and production opportunities through workshops, residencies and co-productions. The central guideline of the project is to fill all leadership and expert positions with disabled, d/Deaf and chronically ill people.
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Now online: Making a Difference meets… Sophia Neises and Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
Follow this link for video, transcript and further info (In German spoken language with interpretation into German Sign Language and German captions)
“Making a Difference meets…” is a digital conversation series on disability and deaf culture in dance. On 5 December 2022, Sophia Neises and Zwoisy Mears-Clarke discussed concepts of aesthetic accessibility for blind and visually impaired audiences with Noa Winter (co-direction Making a Difference).
Now online: Making a Difference meets… Camilla Pölzer
Follow this link for video, transcript and further info (In German spoken language with interpretation into German Sign Language and German captions)
“Making a Difference meets…” is a digital conversation series on disability and deaf culture in dance. In November 2022, we hosted Camilla Pölzer, our resident artist at the time. Camilla presented her first own dance production in February 2023. The piece for young audiences deals with disabled heroines and the dramaturgy of the heroine’s journey. Among other things, the piece explored the question of what being a heroine means to Camilla as a woman with disability.
Recommended read: review of I NEED A HERO
by Maria Ladopoulos for tanzschreiber
„The questions Camilla Pölzer explores in ‘I NEED A HERO’ are almost tangible in this moment. How can a heroine’s saga be told today? What does the journey of a heroine with a disability look like? How can these stories be told without, as so often happens, glorifying disabled people as heroines simply because of their disability? […] The performance takes the children, who are invited as audience members, seriously. Packed with funny and action-packed scenes, it is a discourse at eye level with those who still have the dream of being heroes shining in their eyes.”