Let’s (crip)dance! Choreograficzne emancypacje ciał nienormatywnych
Let’s (Crip)Dance! Choreographic Emancipations of Non-Normative Bodies

Summary/Abstract: Müller discusses the subversive potential of bodies with disabilities dancing. Her argument is couched in Sally Banes’s theory of dance and Sherry Badger Shapiro’s concept of aesthetic activism. She describes how a non-normative body in motion can become a space of resistance to various forms of social oppression and exclusion. Using crip theory to interpret committed choreographies she demonstrates that they have a real effect on the formation of social relationships and changes in the public sphere. Thus, cripping dance represents an activist strategy– a cultural practice aimed at destabilising the existing divisions into visible and invisible.

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