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Claire Cunningham (born 1977) is a Scottish choreographer and dancer who performs on crutches. She creates dances and sculpture that involve crutches for people of all abilities. She identifies herself as a disabled person.
Cunningham was born with osteoporosis, a progressive bone disease and as result she labels herself as disabled. She lived in Ayrshire, but now lives in Glasgow. She has created work with the National Theatre of Scotland.
Claire Cunningham is one of the UK's most esteemed disabled artists. Cunningham's work challenges normativity and explores the potential for experimental dance techniques. Her work, as a choreographer, is conscious of the non-normative body and the societal implications of living a disabled experience. Cunningham works in multiple art forms including intimate solo shows to large ensemble work.
Her 2014 dance "Give Me a Reason to Live" is based on the depiction of "cripples" in the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. She dedicated this work to protest at the British cuts to funding and the Nazi Euthanasia Programme.
"Guide Gods", performed in the Church of Our Lady & St. Nicholas, as a part of Dada Fest, was developed through a research trip to Cambodia. There Cunningham was exposed to the ideas of reincarnation and also the dated idea that disability is punishment for sins committed in a previous life. The resulting piece seeks to bridge a gap between cultural ideas and the shared human experience. It combines interviews with religious leaders, music, and Cunningham's unique experience.
"Give me a Reason to Live," is a 2015 dance based on the artwork " The Garden of Earthly Delights," by the Dutch medieval painter Hieronymous Bosch. The piece is in protest against British funding cuts. This piece explores the role of empathy, religion, and the judgment of bodies and souls.
"The Way You Look at Me Tonight," is a choreographed duet with Cunningham's long time collaborator, Jess Curtis. The piece is performed as a tutorial in how to deal with age, ability, sexuality and the intersection of gender. In one act of the dance Cunningham and Curtis perform on crutches and sing a Scottish Hymn atop a ladder.
"ME (Mobile/Evolution)" is a solo performance where she creates a spectacle of her mobility from the ground. Treating her crutches like old friends, she takes the audience on a journey of their history and "slowly begins to build them into a swinging mobile structure"
Claire Cunningham
Claire Cunningham (born 1977) is a Scottish choreographer and dancer who performs on crutches. She creates dances and sculpture that involve crutches for people of all abilities. She identifies herself as a disabled person.
Cunningham was born with osteoporosis, a progressive bone disease and as result she labels herself as disabled. She lived in Ayrshire, but now lives in Glasgow. She has created work with the National Theatre of Scotland.
Claire Cunningham is one of the UK's most esteemed disabled artists. Cunningham's work challenges normativity and explores the potential for experimental dance techniques. Her work, as a choreographer, is conscious of the non-normative body and the societal implications of living a disabled experience. Cunningham works in multiple art forms including intimate solo shows to large ensemble work.
Her 2014 dance "Give Me a Reason to Live" is based on the depiction of "cripples" in the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. She dedicated this work to protest at the British cuts to funding and the Nazi Euthanasia Programme.
"Guide Gods", performed in the Church of Our Lady & St. Nicholas, as a part of Dada Fest, was developed through a research trip to Cambodia. There Cunningham was exposed to the ideas of reincarnation and also the dated idea that disability is punishment for sins committed in a previous life. The resulting piece seeks to bridge a gap between cultural ideas and the shared human experience. It combines interviews with religious leaders, music, and Cunningham's unique experience.
"Give me a Reason to Live," is a 2015 dance based on the artwork " The Garden of Earthly Delights," by the Dutch medieval painter Hieronymous Bosch. The piece is in protest against British funding cuts. This piece explores the role of empathy, religion, and the judgment of bodies and souls.
"The Way You Look at Me Tonight," is a choreographed duet with Cunningham's long time collaborator, Jess Curtis. The piece is performed as a tutorial in how to deal with age, ability, sexuality and the intersection of gender. In one act of the dance Cunningham and Curtis perform on crutches and sing a Scottish Hymn atop a ladder.
"ME (Mobile/Evolution)" is a solo performance where she creates a spectacle of her mobility from the ground. Treating her crutches like old friends, she takes the audience on a journey of their history and "slowly begins to build them into a swinging mobile structure"
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