March 7, 2025
“Having a way of being, working, doing that was more in alignment with who we are and what we do really allowed for respecting our access needs.”
Erin Ball (ze/zir) and Maxime Beauregard (they/them) are circus artists performing under the name InterComplementary Journeys. In this short video, they tell us about the slow tour they undertook, from Belleville to Vancouver and back, with the goal of being environmentally sustainable and supporting their own access needs as disabled artists.
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Find out more about Erin and Maxime’s work as performers, consultants, and disability educators by visiting their website.
How to Slow Tour is a series created by Ontario Presents to spotlight pilot projects that were funded as part of our 24/25 Slow Touring Project. This project was made possible thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, and in partnership with Réseau SPARC Network, Debajehmujig Theatre Group, and Folk Music Ontario.
The Slow Touring Project takes inspiration from the wider Slow Movement (such as Slow Food and Slow Tourism) and aims to transform the touring sector, seeking to increase the engagement between visiting artists and the local community, increase artists’ and presenters’ capacity to take creative risks, improve artists’ wellbeing and financial stability, and reduce the climate impact of touring.