As we enter our second annual edition of the FLATFOOT ACCESS FESTIVAL, I take this moment to acknowledge FLATFOOT’s almost 20-year history of encountering disability through our dance education and development work, and more recently in our professional development work. The journey to thinking about and working toward access and training for dancers living with both intellectual and physical disabilities lies at the heart of FLATFOOT, and this small festival – which seems to be growing! – is a wonderful moment of celebrating not just incredible dancers, dance makers and choreographers, but also the truly transformative power of dance to bind us all together.