Building a Dance Democracy; Inclusive Dance as a model for society
Jo Frater Confidance |
TEDxFolkestone
• June 2019
Jo Frater, Founder and Artistic Director of Confidance, has devoted her life's work to inclusive dance. From childhood, her close relationship with her brother (who happens to have a learning disability) caused her to question society’s prejudices. As an established dancer, teacher and choreographer Jo was curious as to how she could develop her dance practice to include those with learning disabilities. She discovered a myriad of questions on how to teach, train, and make work for dancers with learning disabilities.
ConfiCo are Confidance’s first professional dance company, and have taught her as much as she has taught them. In this video you will see there debut appearance with their scratch piece ‘Joint’.