Salamander is a workshop in water for disabled people and their allies that’s taking place in the UBC Aquatic Centre for Congress 2019. It’s designed to challenge ableism and celebrate …
Academics from across the country aren’t going to jump in a lake at the University of B.C. but they’re going to do the next best thing: they’re going to jump into the pool.Petra Kuppers, a disability performance scholar, has led the water-based events since 2013 in public pools and other bodies of water around the world to challenge ableism and celebrate the full diversity of human experience and embodiment.
One of the exercises Kuppers uses to build community is what dancers call ‘fish swish.’ It involves one person gently pulling another person’s feet from side to side. Salamander is being organized as part of the meeting of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research at Congress 2019, the 88th annual meeting of Canadian academics in humanities and social sciences.
Events open to the public include those in the Big Thinking Speaker Series which are in the Frederic Wood Theatre:
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