Audio-described video promo of Limits (on demand) includes the text on screen: “Daring. Bold. Provocative.” “Confronting stereotypes as a woman with disability” “Disability is beautiful” “Inclusive art is a right” “Captions and audio descriptions available”.
Inclusion is a right, not an optional extra (sound on for audio description) 🦻
It’s so important to me that this performance (and more like it) are accessible to people with disability.
So with thanks to Create NSW and Regional Arts Australia I’ve worked with The Substation to ensure it is.
😎 Experience the accessible, private viewing of Limits from the comfort of your own home for just $4.99
Available until December 31, 2021.
Choreographed and performed by Bonnie Curtis, Limits wrenches audiences into the world of a grotesque creature struggling against her inner limitations and societal expectations. Bonnie draws on her own experiences with invisible disability and functional impairment to create a powerful performance that shows how quickly we judge the exterior.
Audiences are asked to confront how visible disability challenges our ideas of beauty as it plays out on stage. Sabotaged by her internal limitations, audiences experience the manifestation of her insecurity and self-hate.
For Bonnie, making the performance accessible to people with disability was about empowering them to take part in the conversation. She has personal experience with how these perceptions can impact and harm people.
“There’s this idea that dancers can’t have a disability because they can’t dance, and to be a woman with a disability is to be some kind of hideous creature. Unfeminine. Unwomanly. That’s the idea behind making the work (Limits). To express the other side that people don’t see at first glance.”
“Outrageous, comedic and thought-provoking”
– Sydney Arts Guide
“Hard-hitting… deliciously disorientating, and slightly overwhelming”
– Mr Kate Goes To The Theatre
“Best show I’ve seen in a long time”
– Audience Member