ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the work of South Africa’s Unmute Dance Company, also known as Unmute Dance Theatre Company – its history, its methodologies for developing professional dance, integrated mixed ability training, how they engage communities with their work and how this work is created to challenge perceptions of embodied subjects with and without disabilities in their societies. It begins with an overview of the company, then it focusses on the voices of the artists themselves, via an interview, and ends with an analysis focussed on how the company utilises aesthetics, risk and mobilises the concept of Deaf gain in their work intersectionally to facilitate encounters with disability within the context of wider social issues.
