Culture & Community Design - Full Radius Resources

Full Radius Dance Resource Page

This page includes resources for Full Radius Dance and the Full Radius Dance project team.

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Project Brief

Organization
Full Radius Dance maintains a highly rigorous and active performance schedule in the Greater Atlanta area, as well as regionally, nationally, and internationally. Locally, the company presents an annual repertory concert and produces the annual Modern Atlanta Dance (MAD) Festival. The company is committed to redefining the boundaries of dance through performance, education, and advocacy, and constantly seeks opportunities to promote its core values for body positivity. At Full Radius Dance, we believe that your body is perfect, has undiscovered movement, and can experience dance.

Full Radius Team
Douglas Scott, Executive Director
Marcelo Roman, Board Member & CCD Team Member

Social
Instagram
YouTube

Project Description
Full Radius wants to increase the accessibility of its virtual and in person programming by understanding and addressing the needs and realities of the disability community. To do this, the organization needs to understand the barriers for participation in both virtual and in person programming for community members with disabilities, both visible and invisible (invisible disabilities include debilitating pain, fatigue, dizziness, cognitive dysfunctions, brain injuries, learning differences and mental health disorders, as well as hearing and vision impairments).

Through Culture and Community Design, Full Radius seeks to work with a team to develop and produce community activities that will reveal the needs and realities of the disability community.

Guiding Questions

How do we assess existing perform spaces to meet the needs of the company, including all people involved (e.g. performers, backstage crew, front-of-house staff, all audiences)?
How do we most effectively ensure our audience can fully participate in both our in-person and virtual programming?
How do we ensure that future performance spaces are created for all bodies?

Research Deliverables

Research and mapping (ARC)
- Data and map of households in the 11 county Atlanta region with computer ownership
- Data and map of households in the 11 county Atlanta region with access to high-speed Internet
- Data and map of households in the 11-county Atlanta region with disability representation
- Data and map of households in the 11-county Atlanta region with disability representation AND equipment to access virtual programming
- Digging deeper into the findings/recommendations of the Fulton County Performing Arts and Disability Survey
- Analysis of any attendance/participant data collected by Full Radius Dance during the pandemic
- Recommendation for relevant data to collect in the future

Project Deliverables

Co-Design and Produce Engagement Activity and Evaluation
- Desired outcomes
  - Full Radius Dance and the CCD project team have a strong understanding of and insight to the needs and interests of community members
  - Community members understand the purpose and goals of Full Radius Dance and the project
  - Community members are actively involved in designing conversations and approaches to prioritizing and increasing accessibility to arts and culture programming, activities, and events
  - Community members are actively involved in designing conversations and approaches to prioritizing and increasing accessibility in community engagement
- Final report with templates
  - Considerations and Recommendations for Full Radius Dance on increasing accessibility to its own work and performance spaces
  - Considerations and Recommendations for Full Radius Dance on implementing recommendations including identifying partners and funding sources
  - Considerations and recommendation for local government jurisdictions (and ARC) on increasing accessibility for community engagement and arts and culture initiatives
  - Considerations and recommendations for Atlanta arts and culture institutions and organizations (this may be beyond the scope of this project and duplicative of the Fulton County study)
  - Site Assessment Rubric
  - Site Assessment Analysis of a selected arts and culture venue in metro Atlanta

Full Radius Schedule

May 9 - Full Radius presents to teams during first session of Culture and Community Design
May 18 - Full Radius meets with project team outside of session.
August 10 - Full Radius will host a 2.5-hour site visit with their project team at Moving in the Spirit. (specific time TBD)
September 7-23 - Full Radius will co-lead one or two Community Engagement Activities with their project team. (specific date/time TBD)
September 26-30 - Full Radius meets with project team to discuss how to incorporate the results of the community engagement activities. (specific date/time TBD)
October 12 - Full Radius attends part of Session 4 to see and respond to a rough draft of team's presentation.
December 14 - Full Radius attends portion of final session to see their group’s presentation and to engage in discussion about the project.

Resources

Inclusive Dance Programs Write-up (PDF)
This ARC write-up includes information inclusive dance design, inclusive dance organizations, and a summary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Principles for Full Radius Dance Project (PDF)
Questions related to each arts and planning principle (from the ARC Arts in Planning Handbook) for the Full Radius project.

May 9 Presentation (PDF)
The presentation shared by Full Radius during the first full session of CCD.

Maps of Data on Disabilities and Accessibility (PDF)
Data assembled by the ARC.

Overall

"I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much" - Stella Young, TEDx Sydney
Disability Impacts All of Us - Statistics on disability from the CDC
Do Your DI Efforts Include People with Disabilities? - Harvard Business Review, 2020

Accessible Performance Spaces

Fulton County Arts & Culture - Performing Arts Disability Study (Draft Version, August 2022)
A Nearly Comprehensive Guide to Creating an Accessible Theatre - Melanie Malson

Disability and the Digital Divide

Accessibility for Virtual Events - A guide from the National Endowment for the Arts
Disability and the Digital Divide: Internet Subscriptions, Internet Use and Employment Outcomes - US Dept. of Labor, 2022
How can we ensure that more people with disabilities have access to digital devices? - World Economic Forum, 2021

Organizations & artists working in this space

Art Reach Philly - Example of organization supporting access in the arts
Kennedy Center's Accessibility Department - Program of the Kennedy Center. They produce the annual LEAD Conference (Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability).
Carmen Paplia's Mobility Device - Carmen Paplia is a socially-engaged artist that makes projects that addresses his access to public space, the art institution, and visual culture.

Culture & Community Design – Full Radius Resources

Full Radius Dance Resource Page

Project Brief

Full Radius Schedule

Resources

ARC Annual Partners