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Presented By: Petra Kuppers
Disability Dance History seminar: the Crip/Mad Archive Dances
In this seminar, Petra Kuppers will introduce participants to methods for historical dance investigations she developed in her award-winning Crip/Mad Archive Dances project, which include a book of nonfiction assemblages coming out with Duke University Press in early 2028. How can we work with dance history in community settings – witnessing everyday dance energies, not just the stories of stars and famous dancers? How can we track many different intersections of dance and disability – witnessing movement at pivotal sites or dates, grounded in site-specific explorations? If you are curious about non-canonical ways of tracking dancerly histories, both in your personal practice and in community settings, join Petra for this seminar, where we will engage in movement exercises, some hands-on assemblage, and creating snippets of personal writing.
November 5, 2026 @ 7:00pm ET - 8:00pm ET
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Petra Kuppers uses disability culture methods, somatics, performance, visual art, media, and speculative poetry to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Extending her award-winning Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (Minnesota, 2022, open access), she is currently finishing a book of nonfiction assemblages, the Crip/Mad Archive Dances (Duke, forthcoming 2028). Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Visionary Trailblazer Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for her life-long work in community performance. In October 2026, she received the “Dance in the Public Sphere” award from the Dance Studies Association for Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance project. www.petrakuppers.com
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