We Are Everywhere
ON DISPLAY GLOBAL
ON DISPLAY is a living sculpture court that invites us to look, and look again.
Created by Heidi Latsky Dance, the work brings disabled and non disabled performers together in a public installation that challenges familiar ideas about beauty, disability and the body as spectacle.
Performers create sculptural portraits of their own making, holding and gently transforming their poses as audiences move among them. The gaze becomes part of the work. Rather than asking people not to stare, ON DISPLAY invites us to stare with curiosity, attention and care, moving beyond first impressions and perceived difference.
Beginning simultaneously in New York and Nipaluna/Hobart in 2015, ON DISPLAY GLOBAL has grown from two cities into an international movement, connecting performers and communities across hundreds of locations around the world.
Second Echo Ensemble has been part of ON DISPLAY GLOBAL since its beginning.
Our relationship with Heidi Latsky Dance is grounded in a shared belief that difference is not something to overcome or disguise. It is a source of artistic possibility. Across ten years, SEE artists have performed the work in public spaces, galleries and online, joining a global community that gathers each year in recognition of the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Through ON DISPLAY, the SEE Ensemble has explored agency, visibility and the complicated exchange between seeing and being seen. Each performance is shaped by the people and place in which it occurs. It can be intimate or monumental, still or gently shifting, a solitary portrait or an entire garden of human sculptures.
A DECADE OF COLLABORATION
FROM NIPALUNA TO NEW YORK
In 2025, SEE Creative Director Kelly Drummond Cawthon travelled to New York City to perform ON DISPLAY with Heidi Latsky Dance at the United Nations.
The performance marked ten years since ON DISPLAY GLOBAL first began in New York and nipaluna/Hobart. It was a powerful return to the international heart of the project and a celebration of the relationships that have carried the work across countries, communities and time zones.
Kelly’s visit also created opportunities to exchange practice with Heidi Latsky Dance, participate in the performance, attend film screenings of Heidi’s work and connect with artists and advocates gathering around the Project.
HEIDI LATSKY DANCE
Heidi Latsky Dance is a New York based performance company creating relevant, immersive and accessible work for disabled and non disabled performers.
Founded by Heidi Latsky in 2001, the company is internationally recognised for work that disrupts public space, dismantles narrow ideas of normalcy and challenges conventional definitions of beauty.
ON DISPLAY has become the company’s signature global initiative. Presented annually in recognition of the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities, it connects local sculpture courts, artists and communities throughout the world.
Second Echo Ensemble is proud to have helped begin this global movement and to continue carrying the work forward from Nipaluna/Hobart.