ABSTRACT

Consider, if you will, legends and labels, just for a second. For example, consider the annotations ‘dance with learning difficulties’ or ‘a dance company both with and without learning difficulties’ and ‘an integrated performance company’. For the purposes of this essay, I would like to redefine ‘performance with learning difficulties’ as Outsider Performance, and performers with learning difficulties as Outsider Performers. Apart from tripping easily off the tongue this new title embraces speciality, difference and importance with the added bonus of capital letters.