Event Session - Performative Keynote: Learning from Frida

Day 2 - Wednesday 27th, 11:45am - 12:15pm AEDT

Performative Keynote: Learning from Frida
The Wheeler Centre - performance space
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Caroline Bowditch, Executive Director, Arts Access Victoria

In 2014, Caroline Bowditch premiered a show titled “Falling in love with Frida.” With both disabled and non-disabled performers, and sign language interpretation embedded at its centre, the award-winning and critically acclaimed dance theatre work was shown 93 times to sold out audiences across the UK and internationally.

In her keynote presentation, Caroline will address why it was important to make this show, how it was represented in the media in Australia compared to overseas, why it is important to reclaim Frida Kahlo as a disabled artist, and making work that doesn’t focus on accepted mainstream conventions.

(30 min, no Q&A)

Media Contributions

Key Points

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    Caroline Bowditch: I asked myself, 'What do you know best?' 'I know my bones and the stories that live within them.'
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    Caroline Bowditch: Disability is not the sexy thing that brings an audience.
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    Caroline Bowditch: Surely it is a responsibility when we are in receipt of public funding to make work accessible to everyone.

We would like to acknowledge that we are meeting today on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, to pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging, and to honour their long lineage of creative practice.

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