Creative Connector Updated on Jul 21, 2025 2 min read

InterComplementary Elements

Tour-ready project by Erin Ball and Maxime Beauregard.

Keywords: Immersive art, accessible performance, circus arts

InterComplementary Elements is a Disability-led immersive accessibility performance experience rooted in a queer disabled love story. This work incorporates aerial arts, clowning, and innovative forms of creative accessibility, with many ways of experiencing/receiving the performance.

The show tells the love story of Maxime Beauregard and Erin Ball: where they were before they met each other, how they met and fell in love, how they grew together in an interdependent relationship, and how they continue growing and thriving. Attendees might laugh, learn, feel welcomed, and connect with others in meaningful ways.

Erin and Maxime strive to re-imagine what performance is and who is invited as artists/audiences. The process is led with access aesthetics and care in collaboration with many consultants with lived-experience of intersectional identities. This show has been performed at the 2023 FOLDA Festival, in Brazil at SESC, numerous locations around Ontario, in Bogotá, Colombia in March 2024, and elements of the show have toured across so-called canada.

With thanks to:
Collaborating Artist: Mance Granberg
ASL Artists: Elizabeth Morris and Theresa Upton
Narrator: Dare de LaFemme
Access Consultants: Amy Amantea and Tiphaine Girault
Disability Dramaturg: Yousef Kadoura
Artistic Coach: Meaghan Wegg
Consultants: Georgina Riel and Lindsey Pilon
Dramaturgy: Johnny Blazes
Recording and Mixing: Haofan Wang
The Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Presents
FOLDA

About the Artist

Erin Ball and Maxime Beauregard are co-creators and performers in InterComplementary Elements.

Erin Ball (ze/zir) and Maxime Beauregard (they/them) are circus artists who push boundaries in the world of performance and art. As white, Queer, Neuro Non-Conforming (Neurodivergent), and Disabled individuals, they bring valuable perspectives to their creative endeavours.

Both Erin and Maxime work as performers, coaches, choreographers, producers, accessibility consultants, and workshop facilitators. They are passionate advocates for Disability-led art and accessibility, striving to create more welcoming spaces and representation. They are the creators of an international course on Accessibility/Disability in Movement Practices.

Erin and Maxime travel internationally to share their knowledge, teach workshops, and captivate audiences with their performances. Their work strives to reach as many people as possible, bringing diverse perspectives and innovative artistry to the global stage.

Erin identifies as agender, Mad (from the Mad Pride movement), double below knee amputee, and AuDHD (autistic and ADHD). Maxime identifies as a joyful autistic+ trans non-binary dancer who experiences chronic pain and tics.