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Audimance: the future of audience accessibility for dance performance.

Key points: In dance performance, people assume that sight is the only way to experience it – it’s not. Audimance is the first app that allows audiences to create their own experience of a dance. Disability is not a deficit; it’s a powerful intersectional creative force. Kinetic Light is an internationally recognised disability arts ensemble. They work in the disciplines of art, technology, design and dance. Kinetic Light creates, performs and teaches at the intersection of access, queerness, disability, dance and race. Everything they do centres around access, equitable artistic access and the conversations, politics and values of the disability community. Since its inception, technology has been a key tool for both the performers and audience. Founder Alice Sheppard comments: “The means of experiencing a work of art should not prioritise sight. It doesn’t have to. There are dedicated auditory and sonic arts, but mostly, if you go to a dance performance, people assume that sight is the only way to experience it, and it’s not. Once you’ve taken that wall away, you open up a massive creative pathway to think about multiplicity and access in conversation with each other.” The journey from glitch to innovation. Back in 2016, after

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