Acknowledgements and Thanks Integrity statement Funding Acknowledgement PART I - Framing disability and citizenship through contemporary dance in Africa Chapter 1: A conceptual mapping of the terrain: Disability and citizenship Chapter 2: Arts and integrated dance: The importance of representation and productive risk PART II: African integrated dancers' voices and practices Chapter 3: Ethiopian integrated dance - Tracing the story (Yvette Hutchison with Jessie Brett) Chapter 4: Joseph Tebandeke (Uganda) - Engaging everyday activisms, notions of community and rethinking the 'body beautiful' in dance (Lliane Loots) Chapter 5: Ondiege Matthew and Dance Into Space (Kenya) - a three-tiered process of training, working and generating performances across literal and metaphysical spaces (Lliane Loots) Chapter 6: Unmute Dance Company (South Africa) - an intersectional approach to aesthetics, risk and the concept of Deaf gain (Yvette Hutchison) Chapter 7: Lliane Loots and FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY (South Africa) - evolving dance as a tool to facilitate a 'living democracy' (Yvette Hutchison) PART III: Facilitating encounters between practitioners and diverse publics Chapter 8: The role of festivals in facilitating encounters with (and through) integrated dance Chapter 9: The role of networks in facilitating encounters between practitioners working towards a shared intersectional activism Index.