Report Highlights
Relaxed Performance (English version)
Report Highlights: Exploring Accessibility in the Canadian Theatre Landscape (2020) is a booklet that presents findings from the May 2019 Report on Relaxed Performance (RP) research on RP training across Canada, co-sponsored by the British Council and Bodies in Translation.
Summarizing the first research on Relaxed Performance in Canada, the Report Highlights booklet engages interview, survey, and environmental scan findings to understand representations of RP and explore experiences and impacts of RP training across the country. The booklet relates the findings to disability arts and legislation such as the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, or AODA, and Bill C-81: The Accessible Canada Act.
The results weave together a beautiful web of evidence synthesizing four broad domains: 1) experiences of and recommendations for training, 2) research and theory, 3) community building, and 4) policy.
Use the booklet to deepen your understanding and practice of access in theatre, or to learn more about creative ways that people are moving toward greater accessibility in the arts.
The Report Highlights: Exploring Accessibility in the Canadian Theatre Landscape booklet features large text, easy-to-read language, images, icons for visual communication, and alt text for easier access, and is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Représentation décontractée (version française)
Funciones Relajadas (versión española)
Full Length Report
An Illustrated Guide
This tool builds on the Relaxed Performance training modules developed by the British Council. It also draws on the findings from Relaxed Performance research by the British Council and Bodies In Translation (BIT), including the 2019 Relaxed Performance: Exploring Accessibility in the Canadian Theatre Landscape and the 2022 Relaxed Performance: Exploring University-based Training Across Fashion, Theatre and Choir reports.
Videos
Relaxed Performance: Exploring Access is a series of 3 videos in which arts practitioners from the UK and Canada explore the principles and practices of Relaxed Performance in the arts.
The Exploring Access videos are part of our larger Relaxed Performance offering which includes resources and materials for arts practitioners, arts organizations, scholars, and the public. Find these resources on the Access Activators website.
Access each video in ASL, LSQ, English Closed Captions (CC), French Open Captions (OC), and with extended audio description (AD).
1. What is a Relaxed Performance? / Qu’est-ce qu’une représentation décontractée?
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2. How do we incorporate Relaxed Performance in digital media? / Comment intégrer la représentation décontractée aux médias numériques?
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3. What are the broader effects of Relaxed Performance on society? / Quels sont les effets plus étendus de la representation décontractée sur la société?
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Co-produced by British Council, Tangled Art + Disability, and Bodies in Translation with the support of Canada Council for the Arts and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Presentation
On December 2, 2020 Carla Rice, Chelsea Temple Jones, and Kayla Besse gave a public talk and Q&A on the findings of the research and launch of Report Highlights: Exploring Accessibility in the Canadian Theatre Landscape, the Spanish Booklet. The talk was hosted by the Embassy of Canada in Mexico and British Council Mexico.
This event was presented to Spanish speaking and Mexican Sign Language audiences. The introduction to the talk was in Spanish with Spanish captions and Mexican Sign Language, followed by the presentation of the research and Q&A in English with Spanish subtitles and Mexican Sign Language.
Publications
Read journal articles about Relaxed Performance on Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform
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