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TIGERTAIL PRODUCTIONS AND
FLORIDA DANCE ASSOCIATION
PRESENT
danceAble 2006
Beyond Accessibility
Impacting the Lives of Artists with Disabilities
danceAble Forum Schedule
9:00 am Registration and orientation
9:30 am Welcome and introduction
9:45 am The Emergent Artist/Disability Discourse
Keynote speech by John Killacky
10:30 am Panel & Discussion:
Working With Mixed Ability in the Arts
With Celeste Dandeker, Michelle Heffner
Hayes, Harry Horgan, Victoria Marks and
Marian Winters. Moderated by John Killacky.
12 noon Artists With Disabilities Speak-Out
An opportunity for artists living and creating
with disabilities to speak-out and be heard
on their challenges, successes and artwork.
Participating artists to be announced.
1:00 pm Reception at the MDC Centre Art Gallery
Room 1365, Building 1, 300 NE 2nd Avenue,
with complimentary drinks and light lunch fare
danceAble Forum Participants
Celeste Dandeker is the co-founder and Artistic
Director of the U.K.’s CandoCo one of the foremost
dance companies internationally to integrate
dancers with and without disabilities.
Michelle Heffner Hayes, a dancer by training,
is currently the Executive Director for Cultural
Affairs at Miami Dade College, a presenter of
diverse contemporary performing arts programs.
Harry Horgan founded Shake-A-Leg Miami, an
organization which assists people with disabilities in
maximizing their independence and is well-known in
Miami for their pioneering adaptive sailing program.
John Killacky is a nationally recognized advocate
for disability issues in the arts, and is a filmmaker
as well as the Program Officer for Arts and Culture
at the San Francisco Foundation.
Victoria Marks is a Professor of Choreography
in the Department of World Arts and Cultures
at U.C.L.A. She is a recipient of many awards
including a Guggenheim fellowship.
Marian Winters is the Executive Director of VSA
arts of Florida, which provides arts, education
and cultural opportunities for and by persons
with disabilities.
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DATES
June 21 - 28, 2006
Choreographing Disability workshop with Victoria Marks
June 21-24
New World School of the Arts
Integrated Dance workshop with CandoCo company members
June 21-25
New World School of the Arts
Video screening of documentaries by John Killacky on artists with disabilities
June 27, 7 pm
New World School of the Arts Dance Theater
Free
CandoCo performance
June 28, 8 pm
Colony Theatre
danceAble Forum
June 28, 9 am - 1 pm
Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, ETCOTA Auditorium
This event is FREE and open to the public
Space is limited and advance registration is encouraged. Call Tigertail
at 305 545 8546 to register
DIRECTIONS
Click below for maps and directions:
Colony Theatre.
New World School of the Arts / Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus.
 
Information available
in alternative formats
by contacting
Tigertail at
305 324 4337
For telecommunication assistance
call Florida Relay Service:
800-955-8770 (Voice)
800-955-5334 (STS)
800-955-8773 (Spanish)
800-955-3771 (ASCII)
800-955-8260 (VCO-Direct)
800-955-8771 (TTY)
800-955-8707 (French Creole)
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