Enjoy a feast of dance for all abilities at FLATFOOT Festival

FLATFOOT Dance Company, in partnership with Stable Theatre, will host its second annual edition of the FLATFOOT Access Festival, offering a week-long engagement of workshops, panel discussions and performances from Tuesday, November 28 to Sunday, December 3.

The festival takes on added significance as South Africa marks National Disability Rights Awareness Month (November 3 to December 3).

The festival celebrates FLATFOOT’s 20-year history of encountering disability through dance education and development work, and more recently, in their professional development work.

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“The journey toward access and training for dancers, living with both intellectual and physical disabilities, lies at the heart of this small, ever-growing festival,” said FLATFOOT’s artistic director Lliane Loots. “It is a wonderful moment of celebrating not just the incredible dancers, dance makers, and choreographers but of the truly transformative power of dance to bind society together.”

New works will be performed from the seven-year-old integrated dance programme that works with dancers with Down Syndrome, who fondly call themselves the FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company.

The Access Festival performances and workshops take place at The Stable Theatre, 115 Johannes Nkosi (formerly Alice Street) on Saturday, December 2 at 18:30 and Sunday, December 3 at 14:30.

Tickets are R80. The Stable Theatre is wheelchair-friendly, and there is safe parking on site. Bookings are through Computicket.

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