Our Work

All Bodies Dance Project creates new, innovative works of contemporary dance that challenge typical aesthetics, showcasing diverse bodies, minds and movement vocabularies.

ABDP has been an umbrella for numerous artists, collaborators and visions. The company strives to make work that reflects and celebrates the diversity of human embodiments. While aesthetically diverse, our repertoire of works share values for humanity, community and difference.

Works are created through collaborations, commissions and single authorship. Pieces are choreographed and performed by both emerging and established artists with and without disabilities and range in form from site-specific pieces, dances on film, improvised scores, school shows, immersive performances, and works for the stage. We question the norms of performance and expectations around where dance should happen. We have made works for theatres, parks, rooftops, parking lots, gymnasiums and online spaces – We believe that dance belongs in public life.

By integrating access features such as ASL interpretation, audio descriptions, captions, and relaxed performance formats, we ensure that live performance is accessible to everyone and every body.

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Featured Project

A still of a dance performance in which a group of around 14 people are pictured on a stage lit in blue light against a black backdrop. Seven people are sitting on stools whose legs are lit bright yellow "glow" tape, five with their backs to the viewer, one looking straight on, and one barely visible behind a group of seven standing dancers. The standing dancers are all wearing red jumpsuits with yellow "glow" highlights at ankles and on shoulders or backs. Their bodies appear fuzzy from their movement when the photo was taken. Several have arms in the air and all but one has their back to the viewer. Of the seated dancers, their clothing alternates between red and white/blue grey, as lit by the blue lights. Reflections of the colours can be seen on the shiny dance floor, creating an ethereal sense to the image.

Translations

Translations is an immersive performance for small audiences created by All Bodies Dance Project in collaboration with VocalEye and Naomi Brand with artistic consultants from members of the blind community. Translations explores the tools of live description applied to contemporary dance in order to create a performance designed specifically for the "non-visual senses."

The piece investigates the act of "audiencing" by asking questions about how spectators take in movement. What if sight isn't the intended way to experience a dance piece? How else can dance be accessed and who else can be included?

This is What We Know Now (2025)

THIS IS WHAT WE NOW KNOW - Reflections on 10 Years of All Bodies Dance Project, is a compilation of writings to commemorate the 10th anniversary - an opportunity to pause and take a look at some of what has happened so far with All Bodies Dance Project.

All Bodies Everywhere (2025)

All Bodies Everywhere is an exhibition takeover of The Roundhouse placing dance “in between” spaces of the community centre. Join us in celebrating 10 years of All Bodies Dance Project’s inclusive community-engaged work with an exhibition of images, film, and activations!

The Rhythm of Us Documentary (2025)

The Rhythm of Us features dancers from ABDP sharing what it means to be a part of an inclusive dance community and follows three members of ABDP as they reflect on our last production CONSTELLATIONS.

Embodied Filmmaking (2025)

Practices in Embodied Filmmaking: a ‘dance on film’ project is a series of short dancefilms about embodied, collective film editing as choreography, with artists from ABPD's Carnegie group alongside Rianne Svelnis and Guest Artist, Sophia Wolfe.