PART THREE: PROGRAMMER / VENUE MANAGER

Part Overview

To reflect on diversity and consider what proactive steps are taken within your organisation to meet these goals
To contemplate your, and your organisations’, approach to language around disability
To equip you with the knowledge of human rights in order to be able to use them in your dealings as a programme/venue manager to promote the inclusion of disabled dance
To examine examples of manifestos in the arts and begin foregrounding how they can be grounded in human rights language, and how this can add to the power of the statement
To to develop a manifesto for the programming and inclusion of disabled dance within your organisation and to put it into practice

This part is primarily directed towards venue programmers. The purpose is to introduce you to human rights and how the language of human rights could be used to practical effect to underpin an inclusion agenda when thinking about, and programming, works by and featuring dance artists with disabilities. The goal of this section is to get you to prepare a manifesto, and to put it into action.

One point to bear in mind when going through this part, and that is that human rights could used to support two areas: one is in relation to the venue programmer vis a vis third parties – such as trustees and funders. Here human rights and the language of rights can be useful in making the case for programming disabled dance. The second is in relation to the rights of the disabled dancer both to access cultural venues, and to participate in culture.