The Dirty Work

Peek behind the velvet curtain of The Dirty Work – a new solo performance by Jo Bannon blending the trickery of magic with the lived experience of visual impairment. Using delicate choreography and a magician’s patter, she unveils the invisible labour that shapes how we navigate the world through a disability lens.

Jo’s practice is concerned with how our specific bodies, identities and sensory perceptions impact how we experience the world around us, and how this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed. Her work is informed by her identity as a disabled woman with albinism, and attempts to unpick the ways we look, hear and sense our immediate environment in order to rethink or make unfamiliar these intrinsic human behaviours.