Interview with Adam Benjamin

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Adam Benjamin, a pioneer and much esteemed choreographer and teacher in the field of integrated dance. Based in the United Kingdom, he describes his introduction to disability through a visual arts residency at a spinal injury clinic, and how it led to a moment of a woman in a wheelchair supporting himself, an able-bodied man, subverting gender and able-ist norms, and thus initiating CandoCo Dance Company. He discusses the importance of marrying choreography with education, the question of who can and can’t dance professionally with regards to learning disabilities, the process of making a university dance program accessible to students with disabilities, and the value of writing about his work and sharing it with others. Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

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