Biography
Presenting Access as Praxis: A conversation between disability arts and culture practitioners
Sydney Erlikh (MSEd) is a doctoral candidate in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography on inclusive dance companies in South Africa and Finland with dancers with intellectual disabilities. She was co-awarded a 2019-2020 Schweitzer Fellowship which led to the creation of the Inclusive Dance Workshop Series at Access Living in Chicago. She was selected as a SeeChicagoDance Critical Writing Fellow in 2020. In 2021 and 2022 she participated in Harvard Mellon School of Theater and Performance Studies Research. Her most recent curation, performance, and choreography was with the Art Institute of Chicago.