ABSTRACT
This chapter opens with an anecdote of what took place at the after party for the performance in the Christchurch Arts Festival as a metaphor of the difficulties for learning disabled artists when they leave the theatre and attempt to take the road to inclusion. The paths of performance research of Different Light are then linked with the journeyings of Māui in Māori myth. The COVID-19 pandemic re-routes these journeyings: online, into lockdowns and isolations, and Zoom boxes, spaces which are both more accessible and inaccessible to disabled artists. The chapter gives some account of how the company has tried to hold onto theatre and each other in the pandemic. It goes on to give an account of the learning disabled artists participating in an international academic conference questioning what constitutes performance philosophy and, through a continuing process of self-examination, what constitutes the centre of the company and the drive to continue to research what performance means as learning disabled artists and what it can contribute in a time of crises.
