Kalekowanie choreografii a estetyka niepełnosprawności: „Lektura uproszczona" Cristiny Morales i „The Other Side of Dance" Diany Niepce
Choreography Crippling and Disability Aesthetics: Cristina Morales’ "Easy Reading" and Diana Niepce’s "The Other Side of Dance"

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the tensions between disability aesthetics, as conceptualized by Tobin Siebers, and crip dance practices, as well as between integrated dance and crip choreography. Although disability aesthetics offers an important critical perspective on official art history, its attachment to the category of beauty limits its emancipatory potential. Crippling practices, on the other hand, radically transcend normative frameworks, celebrating disability as a source of alternative knowledge and political resistance. The proposed analysis of Diana Niepce’s performance The Other Side of Dance and Cristina Morales’ novel Easy Reading employs the methodology of crip reading and research in disability studies. The article aims to show how crip choreographies not only activate the critical potential of disability aesthetics, but also transcend it, destabilizing normative models of corporeality, expression, and productivity. The article clearly emphasizes that crip practices do not seek legitimization within the dominant aesthetic, but rather projects its own epistemologies based on the experience of disability, on disobedience and audacity.

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