Lawrence is a validated Deaf and Disability Artist with the Canada Council for the Arts and have for nearly twenty years been a leading amputee dancer in Canada and British Columbia. His work reflects my lived experience of cancer-related limb loss. My dance piece “Discovering” in 2016 was the first dance performance in Canada to feature an above-knee amputee in a leading role. “Neither Starved Nor Cold” premiered at the Gibney Dance Centre in New York City in 2021 which Lawrence both produced and starred in. I am a potent and energetic disability movement artist. Equally important I am an artist member of Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture, British Columbia’s leading arts hub for artists with disabilities. I am proud to have served Kickstart in Vancouver in 2020 as a disability arts presenter and in past years as a contracted disabled dancer and look forward to my continued association with our province’s dedicated organization committed to the empowerment of artists with physical, intellectual and sensory disabilities in Vancouver and the lower mainland.
I have also presented to the All Bodies Dance Project in Vancouver and am a Full Artist member of the Scotiabank Dance Centre.
« Je crois que Sync Canada peut m’aider à mieux comprendre mon potentiel en tant que leader artistique pour les personnes handicapées et me donner les outils dont j’ai besoin pour m’aider à manifester mes objectifs dans la gestion de mon propre organisme artistique pour personnes handicapées dirigé par un handicap.