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Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and jointly hosted by Guildford School of Acting and the Centre for Translation Studies at the ����Vlog.

This one-day symposium explores philosophical issues around disability and accessibility in the performing arts. Focused on themes including aesthetic justice and community, cross-modal perception, meaning-making, sensory sensitivity, inclusivity and specific access practices such as audio description, the event brings together philosophers, performing artists and access practitioners. 

DRAFT PROGRAMME

09.15 – 09.45      Registration and coffee / tea

09.45 – 10.00      Welcome

10.00 – 10.45    Keynote: Rebecca Wallbank (Uppsala University): Aesthetic accessibility: Epistemic biases and pragmatic encroachment

10.45 – 11.15    Coffee / tea

11.15 – 12.45    Session 1: Aesthetic and disability justice

Ager Pérez Casanovas (University of Barcelona): Access as performance: Disability justice, infrastructural activism and aesthetic community

Jingan Chen (Jinan University): Beyond sensory exclusion: Class, aesthetics and accessibility in performing arts

Ess Grange (audio-describer): Dreaming bodies: audio describing for and with improvised performance

                           Session 2: Theatre industry, casting and training

Maria Oshodi (Extant Theatre Company): The invisible absurd: Presencing the invisible

Jessi Parrott (Independent researcher) and Jamie Hale (CRIPtic Arts, Independent researcher): “An inclusive cast informing the process for an inclusive audience”

Michael Budmani (University of the Arts, Singapore): Reframing the theatre production classroom: Disability and access in contemporary theatre production education

12.45 – 13.45    Lunch

13.45 – 14.30    Keynote: Amelia Lander-Cavallo (Quiplash): Remember who you’re doing this for: Access dramaturgy in integrated audio description

14.40 – 16.10    Session 3: Sensory modalities and sensitivities

Kelsie Acton (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama): Chill aesthetics and aesthetic communities of sensory sensitivity

Shuangshuang Cai (University of Warwick): Transcending sensory boundaries: Physical theatre King Lear as inclusive aesthetic

Victor Durà-Vilà (University of Leeds): Creativity and aesthetic appreciation beyond sight and hearing 

                           Session 4: Movement and dance

Jack McIntosh (Birkbeck, University of London): My hands and feet are wiggling: Austistic poetics and the hidden joys of Stimming

Trupti Panigrahi (Queen Mary University London): Dancing the fine line between inclusion and exclusion: Negotiating disability in Indian classical dances

Arianna Carloni (����Vlog): Watching and listening to dance: Audience reception insights into engagement and meaning-making, and their significance for access

16.10 – 16.30    Coffee / tea

16.30 – 17.15    Keynote: Ken Wilder (University of the Arts, London): Blindness arts, ‘bracketing’ and the question of aesthetic autonomy

17.15 – 18.00    Roundtable: Audio description in practice

With Josefa MacKinnon (Royal Shakespeare Company), Jenny Stewart-Cosgrove (Audio describer), Robert Shaughnessy (Guildford School of Acting)

Organising Committee: Sabine Braun (Centre for Translation Studies), Robert Shaugnessy (Guildford School of Acting), Hetty Blades (Falmouth University) and Anna Pakes (University of Roehampton and ����Vlog)