Considering Difference – Making Dance Accessible

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking to learn more about building accessibility into your; communications, events, workspaces, and resources of your own.

Activity Alliance – Inclusive Marketing and Communications  

Arts Professional - Making content fully accessible  

Attitude is Everything – DIY Access Guide

Attitude is Everything – DIY Access Guide (flipbook version)  

Change - How to make information accessible: A guide to producing easy read documents   

Change. The 5 Steps of the Accessible Information Standard  

Get Out Get Active - Inclusive Workforce Practices  

Sport England – Accessible Sports Facilities: Design Guidance Note  

Stopgap - IRIS: Inclusive Dance Syllabus

Texthelp - Digital & Web Accessibility Guide for Marketers

Unlimited - Demystifying access - A guide for producers and performance makers: how to create better access for audiences to the performing arts  

Attitude is Everything - Accessible Employment Guide

Unlimited - Accessible Recruitment and Employment

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking to create your own access rider, or to support others in designing theirs.  

Alexandrina Hemsley – Access Rider Open Template  

Disability Arts Online – Access Rider Open Template  

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking to dive deeper into disability advocacy and discourse within the dance sector.

Activity Alliance – Disability Inclusion Support – Facts and Statistics 

AQA - Resource and Support Guide: Inclusivity in Dance   

Benjamin, A. (2022). Making an Entrance: Dancing out the Message Behind Inclusive Practice 2nd Edition. Routledge, London   

Benjamin, A. (2001). Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers. Routledge. London, England.  

Dubon, M., Siegel, R., Morris, M., Tomasic, M., & Smith, J. (2020). New Directions in Dance Medicine: Dancers with Disabilities, Blindness/Low Vision, and/or Deafness/Hard of Hearing. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America. Vol 32. Iss 1.  

Get Out Get Active - Developing Inclusive Leaders in Haringey  

GOV.UK – Disability and Equality Indicators  

GOV.UK – Disability Facts and Figures  

GOV.UK – Fulfilling Potential – Making it Happen for Disabled People  

HM Government - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement  

IDance – Dance and Disability  

Shape Arts – Social Model of Disability  

Whatley, S., et al. (2018). Dance, Disability and Law: In Visible Difference. Intellect. Bristol, England.   

Inclusion London – The Social Model of Disability

Every Body Moves

Activity Alliance: Disability Inclusion Sport - Leisure Factsheets

Unlimited - Is disability a dirty word? Language and the labels we use

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking to learn more about finance and fees as a barrier to accessing dance.  

Child Poverty Action Group - Cost of the School Day resources  

Mencap – Cost of Living Crisis: Information and Advice  

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking to learn more about inclusive practice.

National Youth Ballet - All In!

ISTD - Discover Dance for All

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking to brush up on your general understanding of neurodiversity, or, to help make your dance practice and approaches more neurodivergent-inclusive.

ADHD Foundation - The Neurodiversity Charity: Resource Hub  

Badenoch & Clark. Neurodiversity: Essential for the future of work 

Birkbeck Research Centre: Centre for Neurodiversity at Work  

Dance Magazine - Ballet could be a home for autistic dancers like me  

DJMag - Exploring the relationship between neurodiversity and dance music

Patoss – Neurodiversity Resources  

Sengupta, M., & Banerjee, M. (2020). ‘Effect of dance movement therapy on improving communication and body attitude of the persons with autism, an experimental approach’. Body Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. Iss 15, Vol 4. 267-279.  

Universal Music - Creative Differences - A handbook for embracing neurodiversity in the creative industries 

Universal Music – Creative Differences - The Rose Report (2009)  

Weber, Clara., Krieger, B., Hane, E., Yarker, J., McDowall, A. (2021). ‘Physical workplace adjustments to support neurodivergent workers: A systematic review’. Applied Psychology. Vol 1. Iss 53.  

Department of Education – Understanding Neurodiversity: A Guide to Specific Learning Difficulties

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking for organisations who are championing access, or who offer specialised support.

Accessable – Your accessibility guide  

Creative Access  

Deafinitely Theatre  

Disability Arts Online – Directory  

Infinite Flow Dance  

ISTD - Directory of Inclusive Dance Organisations 

Mencap  

Patoss  

Quiplash  

Sense - TouchBase Pears  

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking for guidance around best practice, policy-driven-action, and reports. 

Access, Inclusion and Excellence - Evaluating Stopgap Dance Company’s IRIS Programme  

Burridge, S., & Nielson, C. (2018). Dance, Access and Inclusion - Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change. Routledge. London, England.  

Change - Your Rights Under the Accessible Information Standard  

Disability Arts Online – Seven Inclusive Principles for the Arts in COVID-19  

Doyle, N., & McDowall, A. (2020). ‘Diamond in the rough? An “empty review” of research into “neurodiversity” and a road map for developing the inclusion agenda’. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Vol 41, Iss 3  

GOV.UK – Equality Act 2010: Guidance  

Office for Disability Issues - Disability Discrimination Act 2005: Easy read  

On the Move - Time to Act: How lack of knowledge in the cultural sector creates barriers for disabled artists and audiences 

K4D - Defining and measuring ‘inclusion’ within an organisation 

The Knowledge Exchange - Could arts and culture hold the key to digital divide?   

Together Active - The Equality Standard for Sport

ISTD - Applications for Reasonable Adjustments

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking for ‘practical pick up and go’ materials such as guides and toolkits to implement into your own practice.  

Parable Dance – Inclusive Practice is Good Practice 

SHIFT Dance – The SHIFT Dance Toolkit   

Tailfeather Dance – Parents Talk: Inclusion   

Texthelp - Disability Inclusion in Recruitment and Beyond 

Unlimited - Unlimited Podcast: Making Art Accessible  

Dance NYC and Dance USA – Events Accessibility Guide

Parable Dance UK - Inclusive Dance Directory

You might find these resources helpful if you are looking to further your own education, or for CPD opportunities. 

Ability Net – Accessibility and Inclusive Design Training  

Disability Arts International – Stopgap Dance Company and Holland Dance Festival – How to deliver accessible dance workshops online  

Sense – Inclusive Arts Training

Stopgap - Seedbed: Training course for inclusive dance teachers 

Texthelp - DE&I Webinar: Recruiting and Retaining Neurodivergent Talent