PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday
14th May 2012
Disabled people use dance as a
lens into shared human
experiences
With Three Clicks exhibition provides a unique insight, understanding and knowledge of disability through the stories of six disabled people who dance.
With Three Clicks
12
– 17 June 2012
Toi Poneke Gallery, 61 Abel Smith
Street, Te Aro, Wellington
In December 2010, DANZ launched the NZ Disability and Dance Strategy, ‘Would You Like This Dance’ at the International Day of Disabled People. The key recommendations of the strategy are visibility, connectedness, skill development and viability.
With Three Clicks addresses the issues identified in the strategy in an innovative and public way by telling non-disabled people about disabled people’s lives and by challenging them to more deeply explore their perceptions of dance for disabled people.
Six participants representing
diversity in our culture and dance genre participated in the
project. These participants not only provided the raw
material used to develop the project but were closely
involved throughout the whole creative process, ultimately
creating their own digital story. Each explored three topics
through digital photography. The photos were chosen by each
participant to represent the moments and insights from their
lives as their interpretation of the three topics of
I Do, I Move, I Feel.
The digital stories, photos and albums presented in this exhibition are a summary of their stories.
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