#a11yArts International Creative Leadership Series with Artistic Leader Claire Cunningham
#a11yArts International Creative Leadership Series with Artistic Leader Claire Cunningham
Watch this free recording and learn from some of the best in integrated and disability-led arts!
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Touch Compass is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading professional arts organisation whose work is disability-led. We deliver high-quality performances and art activations, youth and community classes, workshops, and professional development.
Touch Compass provides a platform for disabled artists, choreographers and production crews to advance their skills and capabilities to create, produce and deliver innovative and authentic creative experiences face-to-face and online for local, national and international audiences. Through Touch Compass, individuals and organisations can grow their disability consciousness and awareness, champion diversity and inclusiveness.
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Alter State Digital Launch (2021), Stephanie Awheto, multilingual sign language interpreter
Alter State Digital Launch (2021), Stephanie Awheto, multilingual sign language interpreter
Work
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Our works are disability-led, exceptional professional arts performances and arts activations.
We are multidisciplinary, ranging from dance and movement performances to theatre, digital films, visual arts, festival engagements and site-specific installations. Through our work we explore the intersection of culture and disability, and showcase Te Ao Māori (the Māori world), Va Pasifika (the spirit of Pasifika) and high-quality innovative disability-led performance. Our work can be found in venues throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally.
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Education
Mātauranga
We have been running fun and engaging education classes for many years, offering a solid foundation of dance, movement and togetherness for our students (tauira).
Two different offerings - our Creative Class (rangatahi and teina - youth and young adults) and our Contemporary Class (pakeke - for adults) - ensure that our creative whānau - disabled and non-disabled - grow together, working towards developing their skills in performance and enhancing social connection. These classes also have public showings throughout the year that give whānau, friends and family, and community audiences a chance to see first-hand what they've learned. Join a class today!
See the listings for the classes for more information, or contact office@touchcompass.org.nz
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Register for our 2023 Matariki programme!
In 2023 we will celebrate Matariki in a cluster of stars and dreams that will connect not only our local and national specialist and mainstream schools in Aotearoa New Zealand, but also other schools and disability-led dance organizations and companies around the world!
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We have news! Read our February newsletter!
Nau mai haere mai to our February newsletter! * Aotearoa arts in a perfect storm! * Feedback - Tāmaki Makaurau Dance Enquiry Hui! * A personal reflection on dance education in Aoteaora! * #a11yArts speakers for 2023! * Matariki offering for Aotearoa and overseas! * Our education classes are now free!
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Mana Whaikaha Hautūtanga Disability Leadership "Nothing about us without us, led by us"
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