Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Dancing With Disability

Listen (29 min.)
This program is dedicated
to the memory of Peggy Hecker,
long time Pushing Limits member,
who died earlier this year.

The complex history of the word cripple


How to include

people with verbal, cognitive,

developmental, emotional

and other discounted disabilities



The story of a disabled woman

powering a diesel truck

through the Australian desert




Excerpts from a steamy love story called Cripple Poetics.





Wha Hoo!


Performance artists and poets join us in the studio!


Neil Marcus









Petra Kuppers


Amber DiPietra








Audio describer, Lakshmi Fjord

Produced by Adrienne Lauby



Seashore

by Amber DiPietra

Set to music and sung by Mindy Dillard


A seashore inside her, she is

drifting

in the shallows

of a short

nap's trip


inland


and when


you put your arm leg hand near

enough to mine all my

cheek cells will come wading, swinging

lanterns and singing, out to

meet you



Upcoming

Somatics/Expression Disability Culture Workshops

with Neil Marcus and Petra Kuppers

Two Sundays, December 20 & 27, 2009, 3-5 pm

Subterranean Arthouse,

2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley,

www.subterraneanarthouse.org.

Suggested donation: $15.

no one turned away for lack of funds.


Next Performance
March 19th at 8pm.

Subterranean Arthouse,

2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley,

www.subterraneanarthouse.org


Neil played a clip from the 1950 film

Cyrano de Bergerac

and joined José Ferrer in this statement:


No thank you, no, I thank you,

and again I thank you.


Neil & Jose: To sing, To laugh

To walk in my own way

free with an eye to see things as they are


Neil: A Poet!


A voice that means manhood.

To [put?] my head where I choose.

Not a word, a Yes,


Neil & Jose: a No


To fight


Neil and Jose: for right


But never to make a line

I have not heard in my own heart.


Original air date: December 4, 2009

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