Breaking Barriers-SRHR mixed ability dances

Breaking Barriers-SRHR mixed ability dances Mixed ability contemporary dance - inclusive projects
addressing Disability&SRHR at both community and mainstream levels of outreach

Dance Into Space designed the innovative, inspiring and revolutionary mixed-ability contemporary dance
BB aims at:
-Empowering PWDs with expressive contemporary dance and performance skills for advocacy on SRHR among other themes
- Making popular mixed ability dances
-Evolving a team of disability rights advocates (DRAs)
-Providing a platform for engagement on alternative sexual narratives by PWDs
-Motivating PWDs to know their HIV status and use commodities of protection
-Promoting reproductive health service delivery to PWDs
-Breaking down cultural barriers, taboos and stigma surrounding PWDs and their sexuality

Creative storytelling through contemporary mixed able dancesto address sensitive community issues
23/02/2025

Creative storytelling through contemporary mixed able dances
to address sensitive community issues

Dance Into Space Foundation share how the use creative storytelling to address stigma through their work with people with disabilities in Kenya

03/07/2024

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But in the meantime we are pleased to share this JOMBA! ABILITY FESTIVAL program which we are part of.

ADDN JOMBA! ABILITY FESTIVAL August 2024
VENUE: Stable Theatre (Durban, South Africa)

WORKSHOP #1 & #2: TITLE: Engaging Deaf Gain In Practice
Zhilling Ghou (China) Andile Vellum (South Africa)

WORKSHOP #3: TITLE: Dancing mixed ability into the Space …
Ondiege Matthew and DANCE INTO SPACE (Kenya)

WORKSHOP #4: TITLE: Dancing with Intellectual Disabilities
Lliane Loots and FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY (South Africa) OFF SITE @ Treasure Beach (South Durban) with DANCE MOVEMENT and Jarryd Watson

WORKSHOP # 5: TITLE: Dancing with Wheelchairs
run by Sydney Erlikh (USA) and Kris Lenzo (USA)

Panel #1: Impact of thinking about Disability as Gain - Host: Yvette Hutchison Panelists: Andile Vellum, Zhiling Ghou, Jessi Parrot, Nadine MacKenzie, Sarahleigh Castelyn (SA/UK)

Panel #2: FREE FALL DANCE COMPANY (UK) - Lee Fischer
Tom Rogers Host: Yvette Hutchison

Panel #3: Digital Dance and Disability - Host: Lliane Loots
Sharing work: Riina Hannuksela (Finland) & Gladys Agulhas (South Africa)

Panel #4: Significance of festivals for developing Inclusive dance and audiences - Host: Yvette Hutchison
Panelists: Lliane Loots, Ondiege Matthew, Thapelo Kotlolo, (UNMUTE if free), Sydney Erlikh

ONLINE DIGITAL SOMATIC WORKSHOP
Petra Kuppers (USA)
HOST: Yvette

PERFORMANCE #2
DANCE INTO SPACE (Kenya)

PERFORMANCE #3
Thapelo Kotlolo (South Africa) + DANCE MOVEMENT (South Africa)

PERFORMANCE #4
UNMUTE DANCE COMPANY (SA)

01/07/2024
Hand in Hand in disability
20/06/2024

Hand in Hand in disability

02/08/2023

People with disabilities have difficulty in trying to surmount all the stigma of disability that surrounds them before they can talk honestly and candidly about another taboo subject like sexuality. They are faced with multiple layers of barriers because of their disability, are not empowered enough...

17/07/2023

on issues of access to SRHR for persons with disability.
Join the conversation : https://lnkd.in/dgMBJmh

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Dance Into Space designed the Breaking Barriers (BB) Project, an innovative, inspiring and revolutionary mixed-ability contemporary dance theatre on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of People With and without Disabilities (PWDs.)

BB aims at: -Empowering PWDs with expressive contemporary dance and performance skills for advocacy on SRHR -Evolving a team of disability rights advocates (DRAs) -Providing a platform for engagement on alternative sexual narratives by PWDs -Motivating PWDs to know their HIV status and use commodities of protection -Promoting reproductive health service delivery to PWDs -Breaking down cultural barriers, taboos and stigma surrounding PWDs and their sexuality