Dance, drama, music … Multi-talented performer Duncan Armstrong is one of seven profiles in the second edition of Arts for All: increasing access to the arts for disabled people, to be published by Arts Access Aotearoa in April. In fact, Duncan features with dancer Sumara Fraser on the front-cover photo.

 

By Ben Jones“I’m the drummer in a rock band,” says Duncan in his profile. “I love to go to gigs and get on the dance floor.  I’m also a dancer with Wellington Integrated Dance and Touch Compass Youth. I love to act, especially on the screen, and I was in the first season of Nothing Trivial.”

An advocate for disabled artists

Duncan, 25, has Down syndrome, lives in Wellington and was the recipient of Arts Access Aotearoa’s Big ‘A’ Winton and Margaret Bear Young Artist Award in 2010. In his profile, he says: “It’s important to me to see people with disabilities on stage and screen because we are part of the world. I think characters who have disabilities should be played by actors who have the disability.” Read it here