Hey thanks for standing corrected it means an awful lot. I’m a wheelchair user and access professional and part of the reason I got into it was because I grew up around the audio visual industry funnily enough. My older bro was a tech, now an av engineer for some bigwig company that runs tours for people like imagine dragons and stuff. I have more fun watchin the techs run around at shows half the time lol. But seeing the creativity and struggle that folks went through for their gear was part of what got my “fucking a’ there’s gotta be a better way” gears turning and got me interested in my field. Access helps everyone and if the stages had ramps that were wheelchair grade it would suck less for crews.

Access is complex and every so often there are stages that just fuckin, won’t work and when they don’t you don’t host there. That one dedinetly could have and honestly I’d love to hear from the campaign if they called ahead. Because if I had a nickel for every place that told me they had ramps and then I showed up and they didn’t well, I could afford a team to carry around and lift my dang chair up for me!

Yep! The first link I inserted I believe has similar models in temp too. Temporary ramps have their limitations of course and the ability to use it is dependant in stage height but with the number of grants and funding options for ada compliance, not to mention srt grant options as that historic building is owned by a dance company there is no reason for this to not be accessible.

Fun fact ours is actually the goose. Hell manitoba will pay your the kill then there’s a tail bounty

Historical buildings can be required to meet ramp standards if a non altering approach could be used. That stage is quite wide and not terribly long, there’s no reason they couldn’t use an l shaped detachable ramp that friction clamps to the interior stage. Here’s an example of one such modular system.

https://www.stagedrop.com/ramps/universal-stage-ramps

Or a free standing floor lift that can be flush to the stage without even requiring any damage to the building to attach so yes, the ada does still apply.

Here’s three different guides and companies that do historic accessibility.

Evaluation processes https://www.oldhouseweb.com/how-to-advice/making-historic-properties-accessible.shtml

Professional contractor specialist https://www.ezaccess.com/post/making-historical-buildings-accessible

A second professional contractor this time UK https://www.rapidramp.co.uk/heritage

I will give you this he didn’t check in advance based on the comment of the dance hall’s spokesperson however the ada clearly stated public facilities must have an accessibility plan and that would include stage access because the stage is part of the public facilities.