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Community and Participatory Performances, Disability Culture Dance: An Invitation
Current Participatory Performance Projects
ongoing classes:
Turtle Disco (somatic writing studio in Ypsilanti, Michigan/Three Fires Confederacy Territory, co-led with Stephanie Heit, virtual and local events.
Subscribe on our new system on this page: https://stephanie-heit.com/turtle-disco-classes/ Just scroll down to the white box where it says “Turtle Disco Newsletter” in purple, enter your email and hit subscribe. You will then get a confirmation in your email inbox that says you have subscribed to Stephanie Heit (the new MailPoet system is attached to my website) and click the confirmation. Done!
Starship Somatics, Tuesdays at 11am ET, online through Movement Research
Contact: petra@umich.edu
Petra's personal Newsletter (goes out very rarely): sign-up
Creative Writing pages: Here Be Dragons
What is Disability Culture?
Disability culture is a trajectory, a movement, a path rather than a destination: Disability culture is the difference between being alone, isolated, and with a physical, cognitive, emotional or sensory difference that in our society invites discrimination and reinforces that isolation – the difference between all that and being in community. Naming oneself part of a larger group, a social movement or a subject position in modernity can help to focus energy, and to understand that solidarity can be found – precariously, in improvisation, always on the verge of collapse. 2011. Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave. p. 109.
This website is a COVID-era reboot. For projects from Petra's first 30 years of disability culture dance and performance practice, see (now static and extremely 80s looking) The Olimpias site.