DaDaFest

Award-winning Scottish dancer Claire Cunningham will perform her gravity-defying works twice during the festival Photograph: PR

The Alexandras will be presenting a disco-driven outdoor roadshow Photograph: PR

Set on a ghost ship, performance poet, playwright and producer Julie McNamara's show, Crossings, weaves together stories from Merseyside and gleaned from museums in Liverpool and New Zealand Photograph: PR

Photographer Kevin Connolly has no legs and uses a skateboard to get around. On his travels to 31 cities in 15 countries, he has taken 32,000 pictures capturing people's reaction to him Photograph: PR

In Paper People's performance, newspaper vendors will cut and manipulate their papers into a variety of characters Photograph: PR

Tanya Raabe's paintings challenge the conventions of portraiture Photograph: PR

American performance artist Julie Atlas Muz appears with actor Mat Fraser in a new take on classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast Photograph: PR

Millie Dollar tops the bill at the festival's burlesque night, DaDaLesque Photograph: PR

Visual artist Gus Cummins, a former DaDaFest visual artist award winner, is showing a film about epilepsy at this year's festival Photograph: PR

Ju Gosling's exhibition, Abnormal, follows a residency at the National Institute of Medical Research and examines the medical profession's definitions of normality Photograph: PR

Aaron Williamson is presenting a live performance piece over the weekend; reversing the norm, he will set up tape barriers on and around the festival site - allowing disabled people direct access, but asking able bodied members of the public to take a short diversion Photograph: PR

Presented by Fittings Multi-Media Arts, Danny Diva tells the story of deaf drag queen Diva Dan Photograph: PR