No Limits PLUS

Spend an evening with acclaimed jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker and discover his inspiring music journey and the magic that fuels his artistry. Through stories and live performances, Whitaker reveals the inspiration behind his compositions and creative process, and offers a unique exploration of the transformative power of jazz.

What might we discover if we follow the lead of those who reach for the ground through crutches, or feel through wheels that trace the terrain like a trickle of water?

Join acclaimed performer and disabled choreographer Claire Cunningham to explore the ways in which different bodies and physicalities encounter the world, and what can be learned from Crip and disabled expertise. Using themes from Cunningham’s audio work Source//Ground, created with Prof Julia Watts Belser as part of their audio series We Run Like Rivers, participants share their own ways of navigating the world and how this is affected by their bodies and lived experiences.

This workshop is open to anyone, with or without dance experience or disabilities. The audio work Source//Ground, and transcripts in English and Cantonese will be sent to participants in advance.

In this workshop, Claire Cunningham shares the methods and concepts underpinning her performative and choreographic practices, with emphasis on aspects of awareness, perception and individuality. Participants investigate how perceptions of self, other and environment are informed and shaped by movement, language, writing, watching, listening and feeling, as well as difference and diversity, and how this can shape access methodologies in teaching and choreographic practice.

The workshop is open to professional dance and theatre artists of diverse physicalities and sensory modalities.