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.

’This is the first time for any of us to be involved in a disability-led audition process,’ Sprung Dance Theatre Artistic Director, Daniele Constance, tells ArtsHub. ‘When I think about what may be different, as opposed to a more traditional audition process, some of the key things are that we ask and work towards meeting people’s access needs, and it’s not an audition that’s focused on competition.’

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. 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. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_