Unlimited has announced the artists awarded British Council Micro Award Round Six funding. These awards, funded by British Council, aim to forge connections between artists in the UK and overseas through a collaborative project. Selected by a disabled-led panel, these seven pairs of disabled artists will receive micro commissions of £3000 to explore and develop their creative practice:
- Aerial Mel Stevens (England, UK) and Joao Paulo Lima (Brazil)
- Haley (England, UK) and Lucas Rossetti (Brazil)
- Lilac Yosiphon and Mugabi Byenkya (England, UK) and John Rwothomack (Uganda)
- Mridula Sharma (Scotland, UK) and Abigail Irfan (India)
- Niko Wearden (England, UK) and jialu pombo (Brazil)
- Sinéad O’Donnell (Northern Ireland, UK) and Jeffrey Carnay (Philippines)
- XA7RA (England, UK) and Saint-Saëns Aşli Asli (Jamaica)
About Aerial Mel Stevens and Joao Paulo Lima (Brazil)
Circus artist Aerial Mel and Dancer Joao Paulo are disability activists with a shared language of physical dance and movement.
A skill share and exploration experiment taking place digitally over five days will explore working together to combine circus, dance and tap dancing with crutches.
At the end of their exploration, they’ll create a proof-of-concept choreography to explore the feasibility of continuing their collaboration.
