This year’s festival builds on an extended programme of activities that began in September 2025, including public presentations, online talks, and workshops with physical presence. These actions attempted to strengthen the festival’s community engagement and deepen conversations around accessibility as a creative and political practice.

Central to Beyond DisDance is its residency programme, which in 2025 hosted four artists- Korallia Stergides,Arianna Markoullides, Zoe Georgallis and her team and Victoria Antonova, supporting their artistic processes and access requirements while offering capacity-building in crip culture and the aesthetics of access. This approach reinforces the festival’s commitment not only to presenting inclusive performance but also to cultivating sustainable infrastructures for disabled and non-disabled artists to create under equitable conditions.

The 2025 programme features an exciting selection of international works, including Zer-brech-lich by Alessandro Schiattarella & Ensemble, alongside performances by Manolis Saridakis, Philip Pawlak, Yiota Peklari, and the internationally acclaimed drag collective Drag Syndrome. These works embody experimental forms that challenge normative expectations of the body, functionality providing a crip--intersectional aproach of disability.

A key focus this year is the re-staging of Cypriot works previously shown throughout the year 2024. Certain creations were selected for their alignment with inclusive practices already present in the artists’ methodologies and/or aesthetics. Such works are the works of Marios pavlou. Kostantina Skalionta, Milena Ugren Koulas, and The Council Collective. For the festival, they have adapted their performances with creative access tools—such as tactile or visaul elements, audio description, sign language interpretation or surtitles—making them more suitable for diverse audiences while preserving their artistic integrity.

Beyond DisDance continues to envision and promote crip culture and access-led creativity, offering a space where audiences and artists can experience performance through multiple modes of perception and participation. Its aim is to contribute to the existing cultural shift in Cyprus and beyond, where inclusion is not an afterthought but a generative force for artistic expression.