DEAN WALSH Hi, I’m Dean Walsh and I’ve lived with
I would love to have my own fulltime
dance for the past 26 years. Unlike
company to satiate and platform my
numerous contemporaries of my gen-
endless creative drives, research and
eration and calibre, I have never had a
communication interests. Somewhere to
fulltime company of my own, and thus,
communicate this boundless energy of
no promotional machine to consistently
ideas and my embodied environmental
herald my works, ideas, research or
inquiries an all-inclusive working environ-
overall arts (dance based) practice to a
ment. But, I would have to define and ask
wider audience. To be transparent for a
someone for a commitment to a quite
moment, I also do not possess the ability
different working relationship than would
to maintain such a company, at least
be considered standard, or that awful word
not under the current expectations and
‘normal’ modus operandi. A pipe dream
pressures one must operate by as an
idealism, perhaps, but one that is worth
artistic director. To do so, I would require
articulating and striving for nonetheless.
substantial support and within an acutely inclusive understanding of ongoing
The development of professional inclusive
interpersonal operations. I would need an
arts practice is in its infancy in Australia.
infrastructure populated by colleagues
However, it has recently become more
versed in, and willing to take into account
supported by major funding agencies. As
the needs of someone living with autism.
we continue to articulate and demonstrate
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