Dance disability dance
A very exciting dance performance coming up in New York, Jan 19-20. Hope the disability community comes out in force to see Lisa Bufano’s work. And hope that people who love dance will see this hybrid, exotic, interesting and beautiful piece (I saw it in rehersal). Lisa Bufano *Five Open Mouths* will premiere at Judson Memorial Church 8:00 p.m., Friday-Saturday, January 19-20, 2007. Tickets can be reserved via email at hlatskydance@aol.com. *Five Open Mouths* is a solo dance performance created in New York September - December, 2006 by choreographer Heidi Latsky for Lisa Bufano. This performance is the product of an extensive and life-changing artistic relationship between Lisa Bufano and Heidi Latsky. The title refers to Lisa’s experience of unwrapping her bandages and seeing her hands following surgery - a difficult, yet cathartic experience. In their first week working together, Latsky asked Bufano to write a personal story and to embody movement to tell that story. From this exercise, Bufano created an ‘unraveling’ gesture by varying the momentum of small circling with her hand at the wrist while creating a larger revolution around the axis of her elbow. Latsky refined and incorporated this gesture into the final section of the piece.
Read more and download the press release here.
