Abstract

ABSTRACTSpeckled Egg Dance was established in Galway, Ireland, in 2013, to facilitate opportunities for learning disabled dance artists to develop semi-professional dance skills and independent choreographic practice. The company aims to contest normative perceptions of learning disabled dance ability, and to make learning disabled dance aesthetics visible through public performance. Referencing the dancers’ own descriptions of their choreographic process, this discussion of two of the company’s recent projects, ‘The Barna Pier Solos’ and ‘Loop Head: Dreams of My Life’ explores landscapes of the West of Ireland, and the dancers’ own bodies, as sites of their agency as learning disabled artists.

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