Beyond DisDance 2025

Beyond DisDance returns to Limassol for its fourth edition from 5 to 14 December 2025, reaffirming its position as one of the few Cyprus-based platforms for inclusive and access-driven performing arts. liminal consistently supports the initiative by providing guidance on creative accessibility for works presented at the festival.

Poster of the Beyond DisDance Festival on a white background. In bold black letters it reads: “4th Beyond DisDance Festival. Performing arts through a crip lens.” In the lower left corner: “5–14.12.2025 Synergeio Performing Arts Centre.” Soft pastel-colored graphics in shades of light blue, purple, and yellow appear in the center of the poster, serving as a background to the text.

Performing Arts through a crip lense 1

This year’s festival builds on an extended programme that began in September 2025, including public presentations, inclusive movement jams, online talks, and in-person workshops, strengthening community engagement and deepening conversations around accessibility as a creative and political practice. With these preliminary activities now concluded, the festival moves into its main programme, presented in December.

On a theatre stage scattered with white cubes, two women perform a complex dance movement. The woman in the foreground, wearing a pink helmet and a silver outfit, supports her body on her left hand and knee while stretching her other limbs upward. Her right foot touches the raised blue crutch of the other woman, who is standing in front of her wearing gold trousers and a black top.
Press Zer-brech-lich ©Clemens Heidrick

The fourth edition of Beyond DisDance brings back selected Cypriot works first presented in 2024, selected for their alignment with access-driven practices and aesthetics, alongside international works that embrace experimental formats of presentation and offer a crip-intersectional approach to disability. Audiences will also have the opportunity to experience the final outcomes of the research undertaken by the four artists who participated in the Beyond DisDance residency programme.

Among the works showcased at the festival is "Do Robots Have Emotions?" by our own Manolis Saridakis, with production carried out by liminal.

More on the “Robots” comeback here.

In a space flooded with blue neon light reminiscent of a disco, eight people seem to be dancing. Some stand, while others sit in wheelchairs, wearing costumes that evoke a sci-fi movie, all appearing to surrender themselves to the rhythm of the music.

For the fourth year in a row, liminal supports creators by providing expertise in accessibility services and working alongside them to design tailored creative accessibility solutions for their artistic works.

👉 Find the detailed programme of the Festival here.

Beyond DisDance Festival

Beyond DisDance is a performing arts festival in Cyprus dedicated to inclusive and accessible performance works, hosting both international and local creations. It launched in 2022 with the support of the Deputy Ministry of Culture

Up to this day, it continues to promote crip culture and access-led creativity, creating a space where audiences and artists experience performance through multiple modes of perception and participation.

Read more here.

  1. Crip is a reclaimed term used by disabled people and activists to express disability as an empowering, intersectional, and political stance. ↩︎