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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Premiere: WITH OR WITHOUT YOU by Fia Neises
September 14 – 17, 2023, Uferstudios Berlin
Click here to listen to the Audio Flyer
Click here for the invitation in DGS
“Access intimacy” (Mia Mingus) describes the complex experience of intimacy in moments of assistance with both fleeting strangers or loved ones. In WITH OR WITHOUT YOU, the disabled dancers Fia Neises and Irene Giró invite you into intimate spaces to explore the ambivalence in assistance. They will disrupt prevalent habits of seeing, hearing and time. And while lifting themselves up into the air, they will surrender to the illusion of independence. Those who wish can participate or otherwise witness with pleasure.
Now online: Making a Difference meets… Rita Mazza
Follow this link for video, transcript and further info (In German Sign Language with interpretation into German spoken language and with German captions)
“Making a Difference meets…” is a digital conversation series on disability and d/Deaf culture in dance. On 14 December last year, Rita Mazza was the guest. Rita explores contemporary dance and performance from a Deaf perspective.
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 d/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).