The Right Foot Project is a unique opportunity for emerging dancers with and without disability to connect with professional artists in a creative and inclusive way. Participants have a hand in creating a short dance work over four weekends, which is then presented at the end of the block to friends and family. DirtyFeet Director Anthea Doropoulos says: “The feedback from the 2012 project was so positive that we decided to extend the original model to include more of these workshops open to the community.”
There is also a professional arm to the project this year, with four young aspiring dancers offered the opportunity to work more intensively in the studio. Ms Vassallo says that this experience “is essential for dancers with and without disability to experience the workings of a professional dance environment”. Former Restless Dance Theatre Artistic Director, Philip Channells, is mentoring the project and says The Right Foot “promises to narrow the divide between mainstream and integrated dance practice”.
