The present report recaptures the DANCING Mid-Term Academic Conference on 4 September 2023 which marked the halfway point of the European Research Council-funded project ‘Protecting the Right to Culture of Persons with Disabilities and Enhancing Cultural Diversity through European Union Law: Exploring New Paths – DANCING’. The conference pursued two primary objectives, namely taking stock of the research conducted up until this point in the project and to situate that research within broader scholarly debates. Thus, besides presenting interim findings of the DANCING project, the received constructive criticism at this occasion is recalled and presented as it feeds into the on-going research undertaken by the DANCING team. The report also highlights which accessibility measures and reasonable accommodation was undertaken to organise and host an inclusive and accessible conference for all. To implement and communicate some of the preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators to cultural participation by persons with disabilities, a bespoke, accessible DANCING opera concert followed the academic sessions. This DANCING concert is equally presented and discussed in this report, including the manifold accessibility measures and facilitators to an inclusive concert performance employed. As such, the DANCING project commenced on 1 September 2020 and is due to be completed on 31 August 2025. It pursuesthree main objectives, namely, exploring barriers and facilitators to cultural participation of persons with disabilities (experiential objective); investigating the intersection of cultural rights of persons with disabilities and cultural diversity in EU law (normative objective); and ultimately re-theorising cultural diversity as a constitutional principle of the EU (theoretical objective), each of which intersects with and supports the others. The DANCING project and research is organised in four complementary work packages. To address all aspects of the research and the activities undertaken by the DANCING project at the halfway point, the DANCING Mid-Term Academic Conference was structured into two main parts. The morning session focused on EU disability law as a distinct field of enquiry as well as interdisciplinarity, intersectional approaches and participatory studies in academic research (especially but not exclusively in legal research). The aim was to examine how and to what extent the DANCING project can contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art and to interdisciplinary approaches in EU legal scholarship. The afternoon session zoomed in on preliminary and interim findings of the DANCING project and in particular those under work packages 1 and 2. Several invited respondents as well as attendees contributed to lively discussions offering insights and constructive criticism from legal scholarship and adjacent disciplines. Moreover, the arts-based research, and the chosen case study of inclusive dance, were discussed within a roundtable to elaborate on the benefits and challenges of such approach of combining legal-doctrinal work with non-cognitive ways of knowing. This roundtable also featured DANCING collaborators Stopgap Dance Company who were commissioned by DANCING to create a bespoke contemporary dance piece entitled ‘Lived Fiction’. The academic part was closed with a keynote address by leading EU law scholar Professor Gráinne De Búrca. The accompanying DANCING opera concert, which was organised in collaboration with the Department of Music of Maynooth University, emphasised and showcased the embedded arts-based and participatory approaches of the DANCING project by drawing on empirical findings under work package 1, which looks at barriers and facilitators to cultural participation by audiences and artists with disabilities. In this way, the DANCING concert both served to present interim findings in an alternate, non-academic way as well as acted upon them by implementing facilitators to create a more inclusive and artistically well-rounded concert performance for all. In doing so, the DANCING Mid-Term Academic Conference further demonstrated the participatory approach that informs DANCING research. The DANCING Mid-Term Academic Conference therefore featured as a key output of the overall project, which pursues a diversified communication strategy, combining traditional academic outputs with artistic performances that embed the ethos and findings of the project and ties into the cross-cutting work package 4 and overall communication strategy of the DANCING project.