13 Feb 2022

25 years of the ground-breaking dance company Touch Compass

From Standing Room Only, 2:45 pm on 13 February 2022

Aotearoa New Zealand's only disability-led professional performing arts organisation, Touch Compass, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a live streamed show.

Technically the dance company, which brings together disabled and non-disabled artists, reached this milestone last year.  But we all know what got in the way of the birthday show being presented then!

The show /rītaha/  will go on - a mix of premieres and revisited, even reinvented, past works that include some of the company's trademark flying wheelchair dances.

Last year also saw a change in  the leadership of Touch Compass, with disabled performers Rodney Bell, Suzanne Cowan and Lusi Faiva appointed to a new Artistic Development Panel.

Lynn Freeman spoke to them about Touch Compass's past, its legacy and its future.

 /rītaha/ goes live on February 15.