What does a disability-led audition process look like?

With an ensemble call-out and funding for new work, Sprung Dance Theatre is building upon existing disability-led frameworks to expand its reach and impact.
Sprung Ensemble member, Sinead Skorka Brennan in ‘O, How I Dreamt of Things Impossible’, 2020. Photo: Kate Holmes. A performer on a darkened stage with a colourful bodysuit. The performer lowered their body, supported by their arms and legs like a spider pose.

Sprung Dance Theatre is a professional ensemble of artists based in the Northern Rivers, NSW that is on a steady path of expansion and looking to its future potential.

The group, which provides training for emerging artists with disability or who are d/Deaf and presents workshops and performances, recently launched its first ever public call-out for new members. Simultaneously, the company was recently a recipient of Create NSW’s 2023/24 Arts and Cultural Funding Program to develop a new disability-led dance theatre work, Bleachers.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_