Attending the Testing Your Edges conference at Salisbury Arts Centre
Testing the Edges
Performance | Film | Installation | Debate
Tuesday 17 November
10.30am - 4pm
Dada-South attended this event at Salisbury Arts Centre. Testing the Edges was a collaboration between 6 organisations who are involved in different ways in making and promoting work by and with disabled people.
These organisations came together because they have a shared interest in exploring some of the challenging issues around theirr work and their audiences.
- Who are our audiences? What do you come to see? What would or wouldn't you come to see?
- What is the relationship between our work and the ‘mainstream'?
- What is our relationship to each other? How do the different strands of our work overlap?
In other words, what are the edges?
Four specially-made pieceswere showcased at the event:
The Ring
Sarum Orchestra and Exeter House School
Who do you think I am?
MotivArt
I am, Who am I!
Dance Aware
(We might be disabled but) It's Still Life
Link Up Arts
Alongside and in between the performances, there were opportunities for artists and audience to discuss what they have seen and talk about some of those questions and surrounding issues. Stevie Rice, Director of Dada-South, alongside Tony Heaton (Shape), Vikki Balaam (StopGAP) and Deryck Newland (Salisbury Arts Centre) took part in a panel debate. For more information, please contact the project partners.
A partnership project between Dance Aware, Kaleido Arts, Link Up Arts, MotivArt, Salisbury Arts Centre and Sarum Orchestra Back | 
