'About accessibility' a Gathering with Tanja Erhart. Discussion on accessibility with guest dance maker Tanja Erhart. What does access mean for a dancer, for a choreographer, for an audience, for an arts and culture institution? Togehter we will dive into questions like these and I will share from my 10 years experience of being a crip queer dancer: Stories of lack of access, ramp crushes, the aesthetics of access, activism, ableism, allyship, finances, hinderences, solutions, access desires, access riders, access pleasures and more. Access is love and a human right... let's find out what the dance floor has to say to that. Tanja Erhart (she/her), born in Austria based in London, identifies as a queer, crip - chronically ill and physically disabled - dance artist, cultural anthropologist and intersectional pleasure activist. Tanja performs, creates her own work, teaches, choreographs, holds lectures & talks about disability, ableism and dance at various events worldwide. Her collaborators include Sarah Blanc, Candoco Dance Company, Claire Cunningham Projects, Farah Saleh, Michael Turinsky etc. Currently she’s curious exploring movement practices of her 3 different bodyminds - onelegged, with her wheelchair or threelegged with her crutches - and pleasure activism in dance and disability justice, focusing on access, care, desires, access riders, exploring the vastness of the aesthetics of access […]