The Other Film Festival WA | Artist Spotlight: Sarah Houbolt

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Choreographer and circus performer Sarah Houbolt toys with ideas of the carnivalesque to explore historical implications of 'the freak'.

<h2>Artist Spotlights</h2>The Other Film Festival WA 2021 presents a series of six artist spotlights which highlight the practice and unique working process of key artists in the arts and Deaf and Disabled space(s). Responding to three central themes: Authenticity &amp; Disability Leadership, Audience Engagement, and Disability-led Creative Process; the artist spotlights present an opportunity for artists to present their work and discuss their practices as they exists beyond merely advocacy for access inclusion: and as tangible, culturally rich, and legitimate forms.<h3>12 – 1pm: Artist Spotlight | Sarah Houbolt</h3>As a choreographer and circus performer, Sarah Houbolt toys with ideas of the carnivalesque to explore historical implications of ‘the freak’ and its place within disability politics and as a means for agitating ableist conventions. Sarah’s short film Space/Feels features in Session 1 of the film screenings and gives a glimpse into what it means to consider the Blind and partially-sighted community in the creation of a short experimental film. About the artist:Sarah is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed Blind actor/dancer. In 2018- 2019 she toured her Green Room Award winning solo show Koo Koo the Bird Girl in Australia, Europe, UK and USA, including to Coney Island New York, where the original Koo Koo used to perform in the 1930’s. She has worked for companies such as Extant (UK), Heidi Latsky Dance (USA), The Dust Palace (NZ), Extraordinary Bodies (UK), and Pop Up Globe (NZ), and appears in Cirque du Soleil’s Worlds Away. Other film credits include female lead in the feature film Reflections in the Dust, appearances in Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife, and TVNZ TV drama Shortland Street. In 2017 she was part of Sydney Festival’s Scent of Sydney, and in 2018 she received the National Australian Disability Leadership Institute Award for Art. As a blind artist with circus and dance skills, Sarah investigates audio description and blind access in her work. Sarah has trained ballet at Associacao Fernanda Bianchini (Brazil), made a work for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and produced several short films in 2020, including for Tempo Dance Festival in New Zealand. She has over 20 years’ experience in access consultancy and is passionate about creative ways of embedding access in the arts and telling stories of disability history and culture.About The Other Film Festival WAAn Arts Access Victoria initiative, The Other Film Festival started in 2004 and is a ground-breaking, international, disability-led program that elevates Deaf people and people with disability’s voices, stories and skills within the Australian screen industry.Presented in association with Perth Festival, this year’s The Other Film Festival WA is DADAA’s second expanded iteration of the project, encompassing a program of film screenings and artist spotlights driven by leading creatives with disability. This program represents the innovation and critical engagement with disability-politics that our creative sector needs at both a national and international level.

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