Pain as a Generative Source of Creativity
Maggie Bridger, a dancer, choreographer, and PhD candidate whose work focuses on the intersection of dance, disability, and pain, discusses how her choreography and research inform one another.
Maggie Bridger, a dancer, choreographer, and PhD candidate whose work focuses on the intersection of dance, disability, and pain, discusses how her choreography and research inform one another.
Hyejeon Hong, the director of Hong Dance Company in Seoul, discusses “Possible Dance 2022,” an improvised performance featuring dancers with disabilities.
Seville-based choreographer Laura Morales Davila and Danza Mobile dancer Helliot Baeza Gonzalez describe their piece “Soy Todo El Mundo” about finding and releasing one’s inner monster for the 2022 Korea International Accessible Dance Festival.
Luda Lee, the choreographer and director of Black Toe Dance Company in South Korea, describes the process of creating “Trialogue,” a piece that explores the stories of three dancers with disabilities.
Erin Ball, Vanessa Furlong, and April Hubbard, who perform as LEGacy Circus in Canada, describe their use of leg attachments, mobility aids, and traditional and non-traditional circus apparatuses in their piece “The World at Our Feet.”