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Creative Momentum facilitates cross-disability dance and arts projects. We are visiting in lək̓ʷəŋən homelands, and collaborate with colleagues across Turtle Island.

Currently we are focused online on sharing skills, peer mentoring, and co-creating projects that weave in multiple layers of access.

The feet of nine adult dancers are in a circle. They are wearing a variety of sizes and types of casual shoes, boots, socks with a cloud pattern, and running shoes. 5 people have just one shoe visible pointing to the middle, and 3 people have both their feet resting on the foot rests of their wheelchairs.
Image description: Nine dancers’ feet form a circle. The Wellspring Dancers are wearing varied footwear and a few dancers are using footrests on their manual wheelchairs.

Initiatives we are collaborating with in 2026 include the poly.sense screendance project, DisDance Collective, Stitching Disabled Realms project, and a regional disability arts network. Later, we will be beginning planning for the next Collective Access Screendance Residency.

We are also available to offer online training on facilitating peer-based dance groups, and on facilitating Move to Music with older adults; please be in touch if you are interested.

Over the past 15 years we have been honoured to facilitate dance improvisation with 100 communities and groups, with people ages 4 to 103. For examples of where we have worked see the organizations page.

A few photos from previous projects:
Photo of seven people holding each other's hands across the middle of the circle
A circle of hands of the Newcomers’ Dance Group in 2017. Photo by Fatma Ahmeda, Kemi Craig and Jo Cuffe.

Image description: seven people are holding each other’s hands, interwoven across the centre.

 

Nine dancers improvise with arms or hands. Full image description is below.
Open-hearted coast. All Abilities Dance Group in 2021 on Zoom.

Image description: Nine open-hearted movements are creatively described here using imaginary objects, as if the group was by the ocean. Shaylyn shapes a sand sculpture. Julianna admires whales in the distance. Heath holds up a small octopus. Lea’s elbow points up like a fin. Janice floats on her back over a big wave. Zola hugs a surfboard. Andrea swims while signing ‘I love you’, which involves straightening a pinkie, index finger and thumb while bending the other two fingers with palm forwards. Lyrica is bringing a driftwood log to you. The sign language interpreter blocks the midday sun from her face.

 

Photo of five dancers on a patio, all are gazing up to the sky, each making a different shape
Improvising with the 50+ dance troupe in 2017. Photo by Brenda Weatherston.

Image description: Five dancers are clumped together on a patio, gazing up to the sky and each making a different shape. The warmth of their expression contrasts the cold concrete of nearby tables and pillars.

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