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The Physically Disabled Dancer and the Affirmative Model of Disability book cover

1st Edition

The Physically Disabled Dancer and the Affirmative Model of Disability

By Lawrence Shapiro Copyright 2025
326 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphasis on the learning‑disabled performer. This is the first book ever written by a physically disabled dancer on the subject of physically disabled dancers. Inherent in... Read more

Foreword                                                                                                                                       Professor Sarah Whatley

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

 

1.      Introduction

2.      The Affirmative Model of Disability

Part I

Interviews with Physically Disabled Dancers

3.      Marketa Stranska: The Journey of the Amputee Dancer

Candoco Dance

 

4.      Suzie Birchwood: Dancing in and out of the Wheelchair

Independent Dance Artist

 

5.      Isolte Avila: Dancing with Limited Mobility

Signdance Collective

 

6.      Welly O’Brien: The Achievement of the Amputee Dancer

Independent Dance Artist

 

7.      David Grindley: Dancing with Cerebral Palsy

Amici Dance Theatre

Part II

Academics

8.      Professor Sarah Whatley: Leading the Way

Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University

 

9.      Dr. Kate Marsh: The Performing Scholar

Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University

 

 

 

Part III

Choreographers and Arts Producers

10.  Wolfgang Stange: The Way They Move

 Amici Dance Theatre

 

11.  Ingrid Molinos: The Dance of Youth

Young Amici

 

12.  Colm Gallagher: Keeping Them Dancing

Amici Dance Theatre

 

13.   Alison King: Bringing It to the Public

Turtle Key Arts

Part IV

Essays by Lawrence Shapiro

14.   Re-imagining the Affirmative Model and the Physically Disabled Dancer

 15.   Into the Future

Appendix

16.  A Conversation with Lawrence Shapiro                                                                                 

Index

Biography

Lawrence Shapiro has been a pioneering disabled dancer in his native Canada for over 20 years, is a validated Deaf and Disability Artist with the Canada Council for the Arts and a UK-published dance researcher whose writing on integrated performance has appeared in a variety of publications including Choreographic Practices, Canadian Scholars Press and the Dance Current.

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