Join us for a dance jam session, where you can be yourself, as Sensoria creates a space to chill, draw, nap, take part in dances and move like you.
Part of Dance Your Way Home & Summer Time
Dance and music have often been historically inaccessible and there is often not enough representation of disabled bodies, minds and souls in these fields. Jam spaces are often sensorily or socially inaccessible, take place late at night or have physical barriers.
The Sensory Safe Cypher is a space for chronically ill, disabled and neurodiverse dancers to educate, express and exchange with each other through movement and music.
‘Sensory safe’ for us means that people are free to be able to be relaxed and behave in the space as they need. You can make noise, move around, lie down, close your eyes, wear ear defenders, shake, stim, sing, be still or be silent.
The space provides a tactile, immersive and multi-sensory space for us to explore movement, guided by our senses, using objects such as stim toys to guide our movement and simply taking up space as disabled dancers.
Pulling from our underground dance practices that focus on cypher – a circular gathering of humans, dipping into authentic improvisation and sharing it in community – the Sensory Safe Cypher is conversational, co-created and based on somatic, healing movement practices such as Qi gong, intuitive drawing and dancing feelingly.