For nearly 30 years, from community origins to world-class status, Stopgap Dance Company has been making work that doesn’t just argue for diversity in dance but shows it, in all its richness and power. Its latest creation, Lived Fiction, is no exception.
Choreographed by a team of deaf, disabled, neurodivergent and non-disabled creatives, some standing, others using wheelchairs, this is a piece that is accessible to all, and which includes every form of communication, from audio description (spoken and on screen) to pulses that capture the rhythm of the music. Out of what it calls “the flex and stretch” that people with disabilities bring to their lives every day emerges a glorious complexity.
