Art and disability: The performers demanding to be judged on merit

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Michelle Ryan, artistic director of youth dance company Restless Dance, which has performers with and without disabilities, believes productions should be informed by, but not defined by, disability.
Proponents include dance companies Rawcus in Melbourne and Restless Dance Theatre in Adelaide.
It`s about the art, it`s not about the disability - we just happen to have disability.
In 2000, Bruce Gladwin, artistic director of the Back to Back theatre company, received a call from a newspaper in the city of Geelong.
As important is "that the actors are seen as professional artists and are paid for their work", says Gladwin.