User:Mirokado/Disability/Touch Compass

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Touch Compass is a New Zealand integrated contemporary dance company, featuring its own choreography and aerial work.[1]

History[edit]

The company was founded by Catherine Chappell, after her experience choreographing for Maxine Axford's Healing Through Arts Trust in 1995. Their first season was in 1997 and a charitable trust was set up in 1999. The dance style includes "'aerial work' which sees wheelchairs and dancers suspended and swinging above the stage".[2]

Selected r-sepertoire[edit]

  • Harmonious Oddity, 2008[3]
  • Triple Bill 2010, 2010[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Home page". Touch Compass. Retrieved 27 Februarary 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ "Background". Touch Compass. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  3. ^ a b Whyte, Raewyn (20 August 2010). "Dance Review: Touch Compass Dance Triple Bill 2010". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 February 2012.

External links[edit]

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Category:Contemporary dance companies Category:Physically integrated dance Category:1999 establishments in New Zealand


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