Touching Trust and Finding Two Rhythms: Challenging Hierarchies as Social Activism

Steven Walden; Emily Underwood-Lee; Hiroko Uenishi; Gray Hill

Touching Trust and Finding Two Rhythms: Challenging Hierarchies as Social Activism

Steven Walden, Emily Underwood-Lee, Hiroko Uenishi, Gray Hill

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This chapter considers the evolution of Two Rhythms (formerly known as Touch Trust) an inclusive arts charity providing creative movement sessions for people with multisensory needs. Their work fosters the development of cultural capacity by and for people who live with profound and multiple learning disabilities. This chapter moves from the initial inception of the organisation with Dilys Price’s 1955 study of Laban’s movement techniques, through the evolution of Touch Trust and on to the current work of Two Rhythms. We chart the journey between these cultural stations of artistic inception and evolution and explore how they both mirror and lead models of thinking in disability arts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
Editors	David Bolt
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	Five
ISBN (Print)	978-1032870984, 978-1032887159
Publication status	Published - 4 Nov 2025

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Touching Trust and Finding Two Rhythms: Challenging Hierarchies as Social Activism

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