Within Practice: Workshop

About ”Within Practice” 

"Within Practice" is a festival for contemporary dance practices. The festival showcases the work of dancers and choreographers through various formats such as workshops, an evening of practice-sharing, conversations, panel discussions, and practice presentations. The festival wants you to immerse yourself in the "whys" and "hows" - in the essence of dance-making!

"Within Practice" was founded by artistic director Björn Säfsten in 2017. The first edition took place in 2018.

Workshop inclusive dance

This workshop is for both disabled and non-disabled artists and practitioners who want to consider our collective responsibility for a more equitable dance scene and to dream up the kinds of practices that will get us there.

This workshop celebrates and problematises the term ’inclusive dance’. Skåne Dansteater’s dancers will consider a spectrum of practices from those that are simply accommodating to those that are built with and by disabled dancers, in order to ask: what practices do we need to change in order to create a dance scene that works for all? 

There will be discussions of Universal Design and Crip Theory, especially Crip Time’s invitation to refuse normative productivity-driven pace and explore new temporalities for being in and making sense of the world. We will share practices for translating dances from body-to-body, and between media, through dancing, moving and writing. We’ll try the ’quick trust’ practices we use in our work to bridge the gaps between our experiences, and work safely and openly together. And we’ll think a lot about the aesthetics of access: what emerges when we think of access not as an add-on but as artistic material in and of itself? 

Under "Within Practice" 2026 Skånes Dansteaters Kompani is represented by Kit Brown, Hanna Nussbaumer, and Simone Frederick Scacchetti.

Dates: 5th, 6th, 7th October 13:00-16:00. Participants are expected to join for the full three day workshop..