Artists Talk: Dance, Healing, and Accessibility

This post-performance dialogue delves into the exploration of dance as a form of healing and embodied communication within inclusive education.

The discussion focuses on integrating dance therapy and movement-based artistic practices into learning systems for Deaf students and sign language interpreters, highlighting how creative movement can foster empathy, confidence, and expressive freedom beyond spoken language.

Within the Open Lab, both Deaf and hearing artists investigate how dance language and sign language interact and translate one another — how rhythm, gesture, and movement can bridge sensory differences and become a shared artistic vocabulary.

This ongoing research seeks to expand understanding of accessibility in the performing arts, while proposing dance as a new educational and therapeutic tool for inclusive artistic development