Wolfgang Stange C/O Turtle Key Arts
Ladbroke Hall, 79 Barlby Road
London, INT W10 6AZ
Phone: 020 8964 5060
Fax: 020 8964 4080
Email: tkas@amicidance.org
Internet: http://www.amicidance.org
Description: Amici Dance Theatre Company is a large company (20-30 members) which integrates performers with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, sensory impairments, and those who are able-bodied. It was founded in 1980 by Wolfgang Stange, who brings his German Expressionist dance roots to evening-length works that are produced and toured biennually.

Spiceball Park
Banbury, INT 0X16 8QE
Phone: 01295 251 909
Fax: 01295 251 909
Email: info@anjali.co.uk
Internet: http://www.anjali.co.uk
Description: Anjali Dance Company is a professional contemporary dance company. All Anjali's dancers have a learning disabilities. The company is based at The Mill Arts Centre in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and is one of the first of its kind in the UK.

M.A.D. Theatre of Tampa, Inc.
4250 Bay to Bay Blvd.
Tampa , FL 33629
Phone: (813) 786-6291
Email: AsherDance@madtheatre.com
Description: Asher Dance Eclectic is truly an ECLECTIC group of professional dancers! Our dancers exude the beauty of diversity through their shapes, sizes, colors and physical (dis)abilities! Annual dance concerts, as well, feature an eclectic arrangement of dance styles including modern, lyrical, jazz, musical theatre and tap. This award-winning Tampa-based company has been tantalizing audiences since 1999 and offers workshops, school presentations and outreach performances throughout the year.

1428 Alice Street #200
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 625 0110
TDD: (510) 261-7050
Fax: (510) 625 0321
Email: mollie@axisdance.org
Internet: http://www.axisdance.org/
Description: Founded in 1987, AXIS Dance Company creates and performs contemporary dance that is developed through the collaboration of dancers with and without disabilities AXIS teaches dance and educates about collaboration and disability through outreach and education programs in schools and in the community. AXIS is committed to promoting and supporting this form of dance locally, nationally, and internationally.

8033 W Sunset Blvd. #221
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: (323) 874-0481
Fax: (323) 851-2078
Email: ida@bethunedance.org
Internet: http://www.bethunetheatredanse.org
Description: Founded in 1979, Bethune Theatredanse is a dance performance company that blends elements of dance, special effects, fine art, music and video to create a unique theatrical experience. Stories from film, television, artworks and literature are adapted from the fusion of ballet and modern dance. Dance outreach is a training and performance program in movement and dance for individuals with and disabilities. Dance Outreach is an acclaimed education and performance program providing disabled children an opportunity to affirm their capabilities by participating in the world movement and dance.

2T Leroy House
436 Essex Road
London, INT N1 3QP
Phone: 0044 020 7704 6845
Fax: 0044 020 7704 1645
Email: info@candoco.co.uk
Internet: http://www.candoco.co.uk/
Description: CandoCo Dance Company is the leading contemporary dance company of disabled and non- disabled dancers. Since its inception 16 years ago, CandoCo has introduced a new dance language that both surprises and inspires. As a successful repertory company, CandoCo pushes boundaries and challenges conventions of contemporary dance resulting in work of extreme physicality and expressive emotion. CandoCo broadens the perception of what dance is by producing creatively ambitious and high-quality contemporary dance performance that exemplifies the company ethos that dance is accessible to everyone. CandoCo’s ambitious commissioning policy is the backbone of the Company’s success and has led to over 30 new performance works from internationally renowned choreographers including: Emilyn Claid (UK), Javier de Frutos (UK), Doug Elkins (USA), Siobhan Davies (UK), Fin Walker (UK), Darshan Singh-Bhuller (UK), Athina Vahla (UK) and Stephen Petronio (USA).

CandoCo tours extensively in the UK and abroad and has won multiple awards including the Time Out Performance Award (1992 & 2003), the Unesco ITI Best International Dance Award (2004) and the M.E.N Theatre Award for Dance (2005).

3615 Euclid Avenue, Third Floor
Cleveland, OH 44115-2527
Phone: (216) 432-0306
Fax: (216) 432-0308
Email: gggregy@aol.com
Internet: http://www.dancingwheels.org
Description:

38, Lynn Ave.
Talke, Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire, INT ST7 1PA
Phone: 07919 026 962
Email: frontlinedance@hotmail.com
Internet: http://www.frontlinedance.org.uk
Description: FRONTLINEdance is an integrated dance company offering a program of performance, education and outreach work for people of all abilities. Their aim is to promote a shared experience of the art of dance through participation and performance. It is hoped by providing these opportunities they can increase awareness of what is possible and promote positive responses to disability and to dance. FRONTLINEdance have received critical acclaim up and down the country for it's energetic, inspiring and accessible dance performances and workshops.

P.O. Box 54453
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone: (404) 724-9663
Fax: (404) 724-9663
Email: fullradiusdance@aol.com
Internet: http://www.fullradiusdance.org
Description: Dedicated to the exploration of new movement possibilities, Full Radius Dance is a professional, physically integrated (dancers with and without disabilities) dance company that creates, commissions and performs work that presents the sweep of the human experience. Noted for their "dare-devil spins, split-second stops and breath- taking speeds" (Style, Sept/Oct. '99), as well as their innovative partnering, the company's focus is on skill and artistry. In addition to performance, Full Radius Dance also offers education and outreach programming.

Oxford House Derbyshire Street
Bethnal Green, INT SW1H 9HP
Phone: 4402077397722
Fax: +44(0)20.77298272
Email: info@greencandledance.com
Internet: http://www.greencandledance.com/
Description: Green Candle Dance Company has a long and extensive track record in working with people with disabilities and other special needs. This stems from the company's philosophy of bringing dance as performance and practice to all parts of the community especially those who have least access to it. It runs an annual dance summer school for deaf children among other activities for children and adults with disabilities.

220 W. 93rd St., #6-C
New York, NY Phone: (212)877-3490
Email: k1infinity@aol.com
Internet: http://www.infinitydance.com/
Description: Infinity Dance Theater is a non-traditional dance company committed to expanding the boundaries of dance and changing the world's perception of what a dancer is. The company performs works that include a variety of disciplines not traditionally associated with concert dance performances such as on-stage singers, actors, and theatrical techniques including gesture and story. Infinity has developed a curriculum for teaching this wheelchair dance technique which is deeply rooted in the principles of Classical Ballet and Modern Dance. The company includes dancers with and without disabilities, as well as dancers beyond the age traditionally associated with performing. Infinity Dance Theater is committed to professional artistic excellence through mainstream public concerts, lecture demonstrations, and inclusive dance classes.

8622 Starcrest T-6
San Antonio, TX 78217
Phone: (210) 590-3457
Email: pauladgorman@earthlink.net
Internet: http://www.Inflightdance.com
Description: The primary focus of the Inflight Dance Co. is to demonstrate that a physical disability is not a barrier in the dance world. By providing high quality dance training for the disabled dancers in conjunction with able-bodied dancers, the Inflight Dance Co. serves a community need previously unmet. That need is quality professional dance instruction and is offered in pleasant and accessible surroundings, at a reasonable cost, and is available to any challenged dancer that is physically able to participate. This 'different ability' dance company travels throughout the United States promoting the dance art as a source of empowerment for people with physical disabilities.

P.O. Box 3686
Eugene, OR 97403
Phone: (541) 342-3273
Fax: (541) 342-3273
Email: jointforcesdance@yahoo.com
Internet: http://www.danceability.com
Description: Joint Forces was founded in 1979 and the "DanceAbility" methods established in 1987. DanceAbility is recognized internationally as a leading force for creating integrated dance communities of people with and without disabilities. Joint Forces' mission is to encourage the evolution and performance of New Dance and to cultivate a "common ground" that allows all individuals to develop creatively. DanceAbility attempts to eliminate the prejudice that inhibits artistic and cultural diversity through performance, communication and education. Joint Forces has produced 2 videos showcasing integrated mixed-abilities dance. One is an award-winning documentary, "Common Ground," about a DanceAbility workshop. The other, "All Bodies Speak," showcases Joint Forces Dance Co.'s mixed-abilities choreography with professional dance artists with and without disabilities. DanceAbility founder Alito Alessi teaches a month-long teacher training course annually to train dance artists and dance educators how to lead groups including people WITH and without disabilities. Joint Forces also performs internationally for both adults and children. Joint Forces presents a mixed-abilities dance performance-assembly which is very popular in Oregon schools and beyond. It showcases dynamic dance choreography and provides an opportunity for children to dialogue about disabilities and witness the abilities of performers with disabilities.

163 Bordesley St
Linwood, Chirstchurch, New Zealand , INT Phone: (03) 381 4995
Email: info@joltdance.co.nz
Internet: www.joltdance.co.nz
Description: Jolt Dance Company was formed in 2001 and offers educational programmes and performance opportunities for people with and without disabilities. Jolts vision is to celebrate differences and focuses on developing the unique qualities of all of its dancers. Classes run for the full year and are available for children and adults. The company creates new works yearly and performs for conferences and special events. In 2005 it perfortmed in the closing ceremony of the special olympics.

11760 SW 72 Avenue
Miami, FL 33156
Phone: (305) 298-5879
Fax: (305) 378-4042
Email: kpdance@bellsouth.net
Internet: www.karenpetersondancers.org
Description: Karen Peterson and Dancers Inc, founded in 1989, presents excellence in dance through its quality based programs and educational workshops. The company’s repertory is performed by dancers with and without disabilities and promotes artistic integrity by crossing barriers outside of tradition. An active outreach program provides workshops and residencies within the community and an annual season of new work fosters creative opportunities for choreographers at the company’s home Excello, established in 2002.  The organization creates “mixed-ability” dance, promotes International Cultural Exchange, presents the work of Miami based dance artists and provides opportunities at Excello, a black box performance venue in the Falls Industrial area.

214 Coal Avenue SW
Albuquerque , NM 97102
Phone: (505) 224-9808
Email: info@keshetdance.org
Internet: http://www.keshetdance.org/n_mixed.php
Description:

Keshet's professional dancers conduct youth and adult classes and workshops for individuals with varying levels of physical disabilities and dance experience. Keshet pairs dancers with physical disabilities with able-bodied dancers, which often include siblings, parents and peers, to create professional-quality dance works. As a result, dancers and audience members share in the idea of unlimited possibilities through the experience of dance.

Physically integrated dancers have the opportunity to participate in Keshet productions, including Spring Concert, Choreographers' Showcase, and the Nutcracker on the Rocks. Auditions for Nutcracker on the Rocks begin in mid to late August.

1520 32nd Ave., South
Seattle, WA 98144
Phone: (206) 328-0818
Fax: (206) 325-9379
Email: cacurtiss@msn.com
Internet: http://www.dancerscollective.org/light-motion/index.htm
Description: Light Motion was established in 1988 to develop the artistic expressions of both disabled and nondisabled dancers. Working with both choreography as well as improvisation, the Company travels nationally and internationally to perform and teach dance residencies for dancers of all ages, abilities, and professional levels. Through the unique style of dancers Charlene Curtiss and Joanne Petroff, Light Motion has helped to build integrated dance companies throughout the world by using both structured improvisation and choreography, both of which can be performed by diverse members of the community as well as professional dance companies. Fees are negotiable depending on the length and type of program.

6 Abercorn Close
Kersey Drive
Selsdon, Croydon, INT CR2 8TG
Phone: 020 8290 6633
Fax: 020 8651 3100
Email: magpie_dance@ntlworld.com
Internet: http://www.magpiedance.org.uk/
Description:

Magpie Dance is an inclusive group of dancers with and without learning disabilities and has carved out a national reputation for its exciting and inspiring approach to inclusive dance. Collaborating with professional artists, Magpie has developed an innovative programme of community, education and performance for people with learning disabilities across Bromley, London and the surrounding areas over the past 12 years

PO Box 61148
Box 61148 Kensington RPO
Calgary, INT T2N 4S6
Phone: (403) 283-1592
Email: Info@momodancetheatre.org
Internet: http://www.momodancetheatre.org/
Description:

MOMO Dance Theatre is English Canada's first fully integrated dance theatre company. Our workshops and performance opportunities are open to participants of all abilities, including; physical, sensory, neurological, developmental and cross diagnosis disabilities, their support, friends and family.

Our work is improvisation based, developing scores, within which each improvisation finds its inherent form. This is the point of access, allowing the dancers to explore and express shared ideas and intentions within each dancer's personal range, removing the boundaries of ability by working with them to create freedom, equality, and unique, diverse performance.

2100 8th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: (510) 898-1698
Email: brucecurtis@attbi.com
Internet: http://homepage.mac.com/brucecurtis/
Description: A professional dance company composed of people with and without disabilities. Bruce Curtis is an activist, dance teacher and performer who uses a wheelchair. He has been teaching and performing Contact Improvisation since 1990 in integrated workshops all around the world. Paradox Dance explores the mind/body relationship, special movement, architecture, time and the perception of the audience.

Oppenheimer Institute Building, Centre for African Studies
University of Cape Town
Engineering Mall, INT Phone: (+27) 21 650 2538
Fax: (+27) 21 686 1505
Email: remix@humanities.uct.ac.za
Internet: http://www.remixdanceproject.co.za/about_us/background.html
Description:

Remix Dance Project, based in Cape Town, is an acclaimed contemporary dance initiative that brings together performers with physical disabilities and performers without. Remix is interested in exploring dance that values the honesty of the body and then surprisingly twists these tales and stories in space to create dance performances of unusual and outstanding perspective. Remix focuses on two aspects of dance development: Remix runs extensive education programs for adults and children as well as teacher training programs in integrated dance.

234a Sturt Street
Adelaide, SA, INT 5000
Phone: 61882128495
Fax: 61882124450
Email: info@restlessdance.org
Internet: http://www.restlessdance.org
Description: Restless Dance Company is one of Australia’s leading dance companies, working with young people with and without a disability to create dance theatre and run workshop programs which are stunning and inspiring. People with a disability are powerful, expressive and distinctive performers, creating beautiful and dynamic dance theatre. The dancers’ skills are complemented by those of musicians, set, costume and lighting designers,  to ensure that the performance is supported by high production values.

Restless Dance Company is an integrated dance company which means that the art is made by young people with and without a disability working together. Rehearsals are structured so that the content and the expression of the dance are led by the people with a disability. Restless is a place where it is an advantage to have a disability. Dance is a mode of expression which allows people who may not have a verbal facility to speak eloquently to everyone.

INT Email: dwayne@revdance.org
Internet: http://revdance.org/home.htm
Description:

REVolutions Dance is a non-profit professional dance company comprised of some of the area's most innovative artists both with and without disabilities. Founded in 2005, REVolutions Dance has performed at The St. Pete Pier , The Studio@620, Excello Dance in Miami, FL, The Newman Center for the Arts in Denver, CO, Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Theater in Rapid City, SD and in numerous schools, health centers and for special events throughout Florida. REVolutions Dance holds to the philosophy that everyone can dance.

In addition, REVolutions Dance strives to reach out to the community with opportunities for education in dance. With on-site, interactive and thought-provoking workshops, performances and lecture/demonstrations, REVolutions Dance works to achieve their goal of helping everyone release the Dancer inside.

243 North Union Street
Lambertville, NJ 08530
Phone: (609) 397-7616
Email: info@roxeyballet.org
Internet: http://www.roxeyballet.com/
Description: The Roxey Ballet's mission is to deliver artistic and cultural excellence. It is an all-inclusive organization, fostering a creative environment of growth for artists of all levels. Its unique and diverse works, taking traditions to the next level, strive to inspire audiences and artists alike. Their Matheny School arts access program in Peapack, NJ serves over 75-100 disabled artists each week.

P.O. Box 26
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
Phone: (301) 927-2311
Email: pkseize@aol.com
Description: Seize the Day is a contemporary dance theater company comprised of artists with and without physical disabilities. Their arts edcation program includes children and adults with a wide range of physical and developmental disabilities. The company teaches and performs in the DC Metro region and is available for year round performances/workshops nationally and internationally.

5481 Hege Brooke Pointe
Acworth, GA 30101
Phone: (212) 877-3490
Email: sdc@spitzerdancecompany.org
Internet: http://www.spitzerdancecompany.org/
Description: Alex Spitzer formed his dance company in 1992. He holds the distinction of being perhaps the only wheelchair-user to gain a degree in dance from a US college. Preferring that his company be simply regarded as a mainstream dance company, Spitzer is the only one of his eleven dancers to have a disability. He creates works utilizing and adapting classical and modern dance vocabulary. His work as a choreographer and performer has been presented in Georgia, Ohio, and across Texas.xas.

524 Farragut Parkway
Hastings-on-the-Hudson, NY 10706
Phone: (914) 478-3070
Description: Sun Dance is a modern dance ensemble company consisting of performers with various physical challenges. It was established in the Spring by wheelchair dancer/athlete Jackie Delorenzo. Combining visually, hearing and physically impaired dancers, this company provides innovative technical and artistic interpretations of musical theater.

137 First Ave. #7
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 533-9764
Email: tokounou@mindspring.com
Internet: http://www.tokounou.home.mindspring.com
Description: Sidiki Conde is a dancer, drummer and singer from Guinea, West Africa. Sidiki lost the use of his legs at the age of 14 but this did not stop him from his dream of becoming a dancer. Sidiki has performed with the premier dance and music ensembles in Africa. He came to America in 1998 and formed Tokounou, whose music and dances chronicle Sidiki's unique journey as an artist and celebrate the traditional arts of Guinea. Dance and music in Africa are community events where everyone participates and no one is excluded. Tokounou offer performances as well as mixed ability workshops in which participants will learn to sing and play African rhythms on djembe drums and other instruments, as well as traditional dances.

P.O. Box 90136
Auckland Mail Center, INT Phone: 0211743475
Fax: 6494759711
Email: catherine@touchcompass.org.nzinfo@touchcompass.org.nz
Internet: http://www.touchcompass.org.nz/
Description: Touch Compass Dance Trust is a mixed ability dance organization based in New Zealand established in 1997, that combines dancers of all abilities. The Touch Compass point of difference is the aerial dance performances and flying dance programs that they run. They have performed in New Zealand and at the High Beam Arts Festival in Adelaide in 1998 and the Harbor of Life Arts Festival for the Paralympic Games in Sydney 2000.

Waterside Arts Centre
Sale
Manchester , INT M33 7ZF
Phone: 01619125760
Fax: 01619125783
Email: info@touchdowndance.co.uk
Internet: http://www.touchdowndance.co.uk
Description: Founded in 1986 by Steve Paxton and Anne Kilcoyne, Touchdown celebrates dance with and by visually impaired people in inclusive contexts. Since 1994 Katy Dymoke has brought the work into many new and thriving settings; we provide workshops in education health and community settings as well as professional and community dance settings. WE run professional training courses in health and educational settings. Touchdown Dance company tours nationally and internationally, involving 3 sighted and three visually impaired dancers. We have worked with Julyen Hamilton, Angus Balberni, Lisa Nelson, Ray Chung and many others. We have produced a dance film with a Capture Award that has been screened nationally and internationally to acclaim.