generating a sense of

Care and Community

Dance Into Space, Flatfoot Dance Company, and Tebandeke Joseph performing on stages across Africa.

Flatfoot Access Festival 2025
Flatfoot Access Festival 2025

Event

4th Flatfoot Access Festival 2025

A week of performances, workshops and dialogues that engage access, disability and belonging in dance.
Sibikwa Dance Festival 2022, Tebandeke Joseph in Time machine
Sibikwa Dance Festival 2022, Tebandeke Joseph in Time machine

Two black male dancers: on left a dancer supports Joseph Tebandeke’s right leg as he jumps, supported by a crutch in his left arm.

Our mission statement

The African Dance Disability Network works to connect practitioners and researchers working in the arena of disability dance. Focus is placed on generating a sense of care and community that supports inclusivity and critical dialogue.

While focus is placed on Africa, the ADD network opens global space for cognate dancers and researches in other continents to participate with African artists and researchers, in a shared space of making disability visible, and which understanding dance as a key arena to negotiate embodied belonging.