Differently-Abled Bodies
Co-sponsored by UCLA Disability Studies, UCLA Dept. of World Arts and Cultures, and The Center for the Study of Women February 17 2010, 4-7 pm
Glorya Kaufman Hall, Room 200
Petra Kuppers and Victoria Marks:
Panel Discussion, "Choreographing Disability"
Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community artist. She teaches in performance and disability studies at the University of Michigan. She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Series, and Olimpias workshops, installations, performances and exhibitions have been created and shown in Europe, the US, New Zealand and Australia. The Olimpias projects are community-based, collaborative, and deal with disability culture issues.
Victoria Marks creates dances for the stage, for film and in community settings. Marks' recent work has considered the politics of citizenship, as well as the representation of both virtuosity and disability. These themes are part of her ongoing commitment to locating dance-making within the sphere of political meaning. Marks is a Professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA where she has been teaching since 1995.
AXIS Dance Company: Selections from the Repertory
AXIS Dance Company, one of the world’s most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities, will change the way you think about dance and the possibilities of the human body forever. Founded in 1987, AXIS has become a jewel of contemporary dance and disability culture. AXIS has paved the way for a powerful contemporary dance form - physically integrated dance- performing in over sixty cities nationwide, as well as in Europe and Siberia.
Under the Artistic Direction of Judith Smith, the Company’s list of collaborators read like a Who’s Who of contemporary dance-- Bill T. Jones, Stephen Petronio, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigood, Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, Margaret Jenkins, Sonya Delwaide, Meredith Monk, Fred Frith and Joan Jeanrenaud. AXIS has received seven Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and an additional eight nominations.
Talk-back with Judith Smith and members of the AXIS Dance Company, led by Susan Leigh Foster
And join us on February 18th for the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on
"Disability, Queerness, and Normativity"
from 4-6pm in Humanities 193. Panelists include Robert McRuer (George Washington University, Disabling Sex: Notes Toward a Crip Theory of Sexuality and David Serlin (UC San Diego, Was the Elephant Man Gay? )