During this Why Theatre? session, Petra Kuppers will present part of her research on theatre and disablity. Her presentation is titled ‘Performing Disability Culture. Glimpses of Tiresias, an Olimpias Disability Culture Production’. In this presentation, Petra Kuppers will share a new dancepoetryvideo created by The Olimpias in 2007/8. In Tiresias, international disability culture artists explore the heft and depth of disability, going beyond positive images to speak about vulnerability, borders, touch and sensuality.
Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community artist, an Associate Professor of English, Theatre and Dance and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan and Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Series. She is the author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (Routledge, 2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and Community Performance: An Introduction (Routledge, 2007).
Date / time: April, Thursday 2, 16 hrs
Location: Foyer U-Theater Studio T, Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Utrecht
PETRA'S AGENDA IN UTRECHT
Petra will be a guest at the Mini International Community Arts Festival (ICAF) in and around Theater Zuidplein in Rotterdam. The festival program consists of a bookpresentation, workshops and performances. Petra Kuppers performs in one of the performances, together with her partner, 'the fantastic spastic' Neil Marcus, a renowned US theatre artist in the field of theatre and disability.
