This programme has now ended but you can still see details of the films below.
Vogue. Imogen Butler. UK. 2025. 3m. D. Vogue is a vibrant and empowering dance film that follows a diverse group of dancers with learning disabilities as they perform to Madonna’s iconic track “Vogue.” Embracing both individuality and unity, the dancers express themselves through a rich visual palette—donning trestle masks, colourful wigs, bold eye masks, and, at times, shedding them all to reveal their true selves.
The Shadowlight Artists at the Bauhaus. Shadowlight Artists. UK. 2024. 2:49. DDD. The Shadowlight Artists are an independent group of learning-disabled and autistic artists based in Oxfordshire. For this short colour experimental dance film, the group explored avant-garde ballet created by members of the Bauhaus school in the 1920s, often featuring bizarre, elaborate costumes and mechanical dancing. The group created costumes on paper and then attached them as they danced in the software. Some headpieces were made on a large scale and physically worn.
Fierce Grace. Monique Dior Jarrett and Lucy Bennett. UK. 2025. 10:57s. FFF. DD. A short, audio-described dance film by Stopgap Dance Company, exploring the sacred power of shared movement. In the quiet reverence of the church, both Disabled and non-disabled dancers come together to reimagine and reshape the iconography of the past. Includes audio-description.
Our Circle in the Storm. Ray Jacobs. UK. 2025. FF. DDD. 9:41. A dance film by Arty Party, featuring a cast of dancers with and without disabilities. It explores what it means to be together while the world changes all around us and reflects on the importance of togetherness and connection in a time of climate change, and the thin veil between our comfort inside and the changing world beyond. A group of climate refugees have made a home of an abandoned house. They live, cook, laugh, cry, eat, dance and rest together, feeling like a family inside, while feeling vulnerable to the hostile climate outside.
Own Kind of Beautiful. Sarah Jones. Canada. 2025. 29:58s. 3D. 2F. World Premiere. Dance artist who choreographs from a power wheelchair perspective, remounts an earlier work creating new choreography with his best friend that reflects her evolving relationship with mobility devices.