Dean, Don't Dance! at The Old Fitz
Every day, 9pm to 10pm Tuesday 20 January to Saturday 24 January Sunday 25 January from 7pm to 8pm
There are only two kinds of people in the world: disabled people, and pre-disabled people. Dean’s just ahead of the f#ckin curve!
Dean loves musical theatre. Dean is also a working actor who’s spent half his life in audition rooms. So why do dance calls fill him with dread? Simple: people with cerebral palsy are seldom revered for their flawless balance or silky- smooth hand-eye coordination.
Dean, Don’t Dance! uses a slate of original songs, bad clipart, and stories about huffing nose beers in the accessible bathrooms, to have a wider conversation about “otherness” and the journey to discerning the difference between how you feel about yourself, and how you’ve been choreographed to.
Winner of the “Commitment & Innovation in Access Award” at the 2025 Sydney Fringe festival, _Dean, Don’t Dance! _intertwines Audio Description and Auslan into the storytelling, creating a shared, universal - and for most audiences an entirely new - theatre experience.