The Olimpias
Performance Research Projects
video: Disability/Culture: Research in Motion, 2012
Native Women Language Keepers: Indigenous Performance Practices Symposium, 2013
Disability/Culture Symposium 2012
Movement, Somatics and Writing Symposium 2011
ACN Eco-Performance Fellowships 2009
Touching Time: Bodies/Writing/Histories Symposium 2008
Sedimentations. Arts Culture Nature Conference 2007
Petra Kuppers Artist Statement, Goddard College
The Olimpias/collaborative research/performance research/poetry/workshops/community art/digital video/pain space/interactive digital installations/landscape art/disability culture/mental health system survivors/disability arts/storytelling/presence/identity/social change
The Olimpias is an artists' collective and a performance research series. The artists explore art/life, cross-genre participatory practices, arts for social change and disability culture work. The award-winning Olimpias installations, performances, dance videos and workshops have been presented internationally, and have recently explored such topics as slavery medicine, contemporary health care inequalities and art practice; sensuality, aging and disability; cross-cultural disability conceptions and notions of beauty in Butoh performance. Olimpias work addresses its audiences directly, and engages them gently and with care, to create a more inclusive future together.
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