Restless Dance Company is one of Australia's leading youth dance companies, working since 1991 with people with and without an intellectual disability to create dance theatre and run workshop programs driven by the participants with a disability.

Restless is a place where it is an advantage to have a disability. The dancers with a disability in Restless are not just accommodated. They have defined the way the company operates. They are redefining the nature of dance in their terms.

Restless is generating a dance language that enables dancers with an intellectual disability to express human truths that communicate to everyone whether or not they have a disability.

Performance works take as their themes issues in the lives of the dancers but are never 'about' living a life with disability or 'about' inequality. Rather, they engage audiences with broader human themes.

Restless is committed to working from a base of Cultures of Disability.

Downloads available on Philosophy:or
1. Kat Worth addressing the Talking Bodies forum in Adelaide 2004 about her work with Restless (pdf 108 kb) or (word 16 kb)
2. Sally Chance writing on the development of the company's philosophy. (pdf 68 kb) or (word 12 kb)

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