Joanne Cuffe (they/them) is active in cross-disability dance and creative access as a visitor in Lək̓ʷəŋən homelands. They are a neuroqueer, nonbinary person of white-settler descent and are committed to, with humility, shifting colonial contexts. Over the past decade, Joanne has been honoured to facilitate dance improvisation with 100 communities and groups, with 2500 unique participants from 4 years old to103 years young. As well as being a dance artist, Joanne co-coordinates projects and offers peer mentoring, advocacy, consultancy, and training. Through the InterdepenDance Collective, they are co-organizing an online residency inviting artists who experience disability to co-create multimodal dance films.
Through Sync, I am excited to connect with colleagues, delve into cross-disability leadership, and have a supportive space for reflecting, imagining, and planning two new directions in the work that I do.