JUSTART is an interdisciplinary arts organization based in Denmark that co-creates integrated, inclusive artistic projects, challenging who can participate in the arts and how.
The organisation combines artistic research, community engagement and international collaboration with a strong focus on access as a creative and structural practice.
What does it mean to stand upright?
Who does verticality serve — and who does it leave out? Who may call themselves a dancer – am I a dancer if I move with wheels, with age, with a changed body?
JUSTART invites artists, practitioners and educators to an afternoon exploring what becomes possible when disability and bodily diversity are treated not as challenges to overcome, but as sources of artistic intelligence.
Following I Love Dance / I Hate Dance, a two-week residency in integrated dance and aerial practice, we gather to share findings and think together with international guests: Head Over Wheels (UK), Unmute (South Africa) and FIMD (Denmark), alongside an academic contribution from Katrin Heimann, Aarhus University.
We close with a live sharing — a glimpse into the movement research developed during I Love Dance / I Hate Dance.
Welcome to a conversation with practitioners who are reshaping what dance can be — and an open invitation to bring your questions into the room.
For: performing arts professionals, disability arts practitioners and disability organisations, educators, and anyone with a stake in who gets to move.
Language: English
Accessibility: Åbne Scene/Godsbanen is a step-free and wheelchair accessible venue with wheelchair-friendly toilet facilities on ground floor level. There is an entrance to Godsbanen for wheelchair users via Karen Wegeners Gade 8 (closest to Åbne Scene) or the entraces marked Karen Wegeners Gade 2 and Kjeld Tholstrup Gade 1.
Admission: Free, but registration required
Current project:
I love dance / I hate dance
Who really has the right to call themselves a dancer? You are invited into a poetic laboratory at Åbne Scene, where JUSTART challenges our usual notions of what a body can achieve. Through airborne and integrated dance, the performance “I love dance / I hate dance” examines the contradictions that arise when the body is changed by age, wheels or new physical settings. It is a sensual investigation of balance and destabilization, where accessibility is not seen as an obstacle, but as the very engine for artistic renewal...