FREE Webinar: Disability Culture Methods: Process/Score-Work in the University Dance Classroom

Join us for a FREE Webinar:

Disability Culture Methods: Process/Score-Work in the University Dance Classroom

Presented by Petra Kuppers and Elisabeth Motley

Free Webinar

NDEO Members and Non-Members Welcome

ASL/Closed Captioning Available

Wednesday, May 10th from 7:30pm-8:30pm ET

In this webinar, we will look at various ways that disability culture methods can enhance, supplement and disrupt dance classrooms in productive and enjoyable ways. How can we use score-work and media engagement to re-do notions of presence, in particular when so many students cannot be present all the time in person, have to be online, cannot commit to harsh time regimes, or deal with injury and rest periods? How can we use disability artistry and lineage work to understand how else dance can find its way into the (university and public) world?

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Bio of Presenter

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a community performance artist, a disability culture activist, and a wheelchair dancer. She uses social somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. She has been engaged in community dance and disability culture production since the late 80s and continues to lead workshops internationally. Currently, she runs weekly online disability culture movement classes, Starship Somatics, through Movement Research.

Petra has written a range of academic books in expanded dance studies (latest, Eco Soma: Joy and Pain in Speculative Performance Encounters (2022, open access).

She was a 2021 Dance Research Fellow at the New York Public Library, where she created the ongoing Crip/Mad Archive Dances, and she is a 2022 Dance/USA Fellow.

Kuppers is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan, and an adviser on the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.

Elisabeth Motley (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based disabled choreographer, scholar, and teacher whose work is concerned with disability as a framework for choreography and creative practice. Motley was a 2019-2021 Movement Research Artist in Residence, a 2020 & 2021 Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellow and a recipient of the 2018-2019 Fulbright US-UK Scholar Award. She has shared work at Movement Research at Judson, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project’s DraftWork, Gibney Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, HERE, Festival Oltre Passo – Italy, Springboard Danse Montreal, and The Whitney Museum among others. Motley co-conspires with fellow disabled choreographer Kayla Hamilton on Crip Movement Lab - a pedagogical framework centering cross-disability accessible movement practices. She is an Associate Professor

of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College (NYC) and is studying toward a Dance

Practice-as-Research Ph.D. at University of Roehampton (UK), focusing on

choreography and disability culture studies.