ARTISTS/dancers

Sue Austin is a multimedia, performance and installation artist with a socially engaged practice. As Artistic Director of Freewheeling she “recognises the power of starting at the ‘personal’ and finding archetypal, numinous images that ‘communicate’ through connecting with the universality of human experience.”

Established in 1995, Anjali Dance Company has empowered people with learning disabilities to establish themselves as dance artists in their own right. Their work has helped to change perceptions of the creative and artistic potential of people with learning disabilities in the UK and beyond.

Providing dancers with a new vocabulary that enhances their creativity, Artistic Director and Choreographer Marc Brew tries to redefine expectations of physicality for both performers and audiences. His work is renowned for its tender, precise choreographic material that exemplifies the beauty of the moments shared between people, revealing the unusual and the inspiring in the everyday and the mundane. 

Jennifer Bricker always had a passion for tumbling and gymnastics, despite being born without legs. Throughout her life she competed in power tumbling, volleyball, and softball… all against able-bodied athletes. Jen’s athletic achievements were featured on Extra, Arabella (Germany’s renown talk show), performances around the world under the direction of Heidi Latsky, and the Britney Spears World Tour.

Candoco, founded in 1991 by Celeste Dandeker-Arnold OBE and Adam Benjamin, bridges the mainstream and the experimental. Their bold approach and powerful collaborations create distinctive performances and far-reaching learning experiences. Candoco celebrates different ways of being and of making art, putting them at the forefront of conversation around dance and disability.

Lawrence Carter-Long performed with Heidi Latsky Dance in GIMP.  An internationally respected authority on the history and evolution of disability in media, Lawrence has provided feedback, guidance, curated, or consulted on projects for SAG-AFTRA, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sundance Institute, the American Film Institute, the Academy Museum, the Television Academy, NPR, and the BBC.

Jeffrey Freeze  (Associate Director, GIMP) has worked with Michael Mao Dance, Phi Dance Theater, Sense Dance and Bruce Webber’s No Chance Ensemble. He served as both choreographer and principal dancer for Infinity Dance Theater and in Robert La Fosse’s West Side Story tour. His Broadway debut was with Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and his film debut was in Dirty Dancing.

Lezlie Frye is an educator, performance artist, and a yoga and meditation teacher. She is currently Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Disability Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Frye was a company member of GIMP and a collective member of SINS Invalid.

GIMP is a full evening dance work by Heidi Latsky Dance that is about being watched. An edgy landscape of unexpected bodies, GIMP seeks to redefine beauty and virtuosity.  GIMP premiered in 2008 and toured internationally from 2009-2012 at prestigious venues like Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Lied Center and the Dublin Dance Festivall, to much critical acclaim.

Founder and director of the Urban Jazz Dance Company, Purple Fire Crow also Known as Mx. Antoine Hunter is an award-winning African, Indigenous, Deaf, Disable, Two Spirit producer, choreographer, film/theater actor, dancer, dance instructor, model, poet, speaker, mentor and Deaf advocate. Hunter is featured in FIXED in an excerpt from a show with Sins Invalid. 

Based in South Africa, Remix strives to create innovative dance theatre performance and education programmes that bring together people with different body histories, body types and abilities. The work of Remix is artistically fresh, outstanding and intelligent. Remix performs work on professional and mainstream dance platforms.