Abilities Dance Boston engages with the community to further promote our mission. We teach Intersectional DIsability rights lectures / movement workshops to all ages. we always facilitate conversations with our community partner with the overall goal of furthering our mission through teaching inclusive practices in their spaces to bring back to their communities. 

Movement WORKSHOPS + LECTURES

  • Storytelling through movement

  • Disability culture and intersectionality through an access lens

  • Tailored to intergenerational / multicultural communities

  • Sliding scale to work with all communities

 

Recurring MOVEMENT CLASSES

  • Dive deeper into Social, Emotional, and Physical wellness through weekly classes

  • Adaptive ballet, modern, and contemporary techniques

  • Classes tailored to the student population, age, and cultural identity

  • Private or group classes

  • Working with schools, elder centers, and other community organizations

 

CONSULTING

organizational

  • Tailored to the need of your organization’s or community’s internal or external practices

  • Equitable hiring practices

  • Increasing diversity within organizations/communities served

  • Internal and external practices audit

events

  • Increasing accessibility in performances/events

  • Accessible marketing to deaf/disabled community

 

Want us to come to your organization? 

We love to collaborate with organizations in teaching dance workshops and/or inclusive practices in your spaces. Please email us at katherine@abilitiesdanceboston.org, or call 617-581-4679 to start the conversation. 

Central boston elder services

We teach free weekly adaptive dance classes at ten Central Boston Elder Service locations including Roxbury, Dorchester, Brighton, and other Boston neighborhoods. The classes are adapted not just for disabilities, but for the diverse cultural identities students are entering to make the classes a great experience for all.

Brookline High Schools’ Bridge Alliance

We teach free weekly adaptive dance classes at. The classes are adapted not just for disabilities, but for the diverse cultural identities students are entering to make the classes a great experience for all.

lectures!

In addition to weekly classes taught by our staff of accomplished teachers, Executive Director, Ellice Patterson, gives lectures on how to integrate various intersectional disability justice elements in your spaces and communities, tailored to each audience. We will work with your organization / community to offer these on an equitable sliding scale.

Some additional Community Partners

  • Central Boston Elder Services

  • Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD)

  • Community Music Center of Boston

  • Brookline High Schools’ Bridge Alliance

  • Boston University

  • Frederick Pilot School

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