Inclusive Dance Workshop

Program Type:

Equity & Anti-Racism, Kids & Families

Age Group:

Elementary School
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Allowed Ages: 5 to 12

Program Description

Event Details

This Inclusive Dance Workshop is a community-led gathering for movers of all kinds! Join us for an afternoon of creative movement where children will be invited to develop and explore their own dances by a team of disabled and non-disabled dance professionals. All bodies, minds, and experience levels are welcome! For ages 5-11.

This event is part of our Disability Pride Month celebration. 

About the presenters
Maggie Bridger (she/her) is a sick and disabled dance artist, educator, and scholar. She is a current Fellow Artist in Residence at High Concept Labs, where she curates LabE, an initiative dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of disabled dance artists.

Robby Williams is a Black, Latiné, disabled dancer in the Chicago area. His current focus is on works that foster and lift up other artists in disabled and unified spaces, in hopes to continue the momentum that his peers and predecessors have built up.  He dances with MOMENTA Dance Company and Tango 21 Dance Theatre, is a teaching artist with ReInventability, is a 3Arts|Bodies of Work fellow, and a member of Unfolding Disability Futures.

Disclaimer(s)

Physical Activity

By joining this class, you declare that you are physically fit and ready to participate and understand any physical activity may involve some risk of injury. You may rest at any time during the class. It is your responsibility to consult with your physician with respect to any past or present injury, illness, health problem, or any other condition or medication that may affect your participation.

The participant assumes all risks of injury and illness that may result from such participation. The participant agrees to waive and release the Oak Park Public Library, its officers, employees, trustees, and agents and shall hold such persons/entity harmless from any and all liability for any claim, suit, or other cause of action which might arise from injuries, illness, damages, or loss which may occur on account of participation in such activities.