--- You wrote: Am I being offensive by giving a wheelchair bound person Lifeforms to create performance with, when their upper body is capable of movement? --- end of quote --- Dear Kema - I would say that learning to use Life Forms would be one option for wheelchair bound dancers or choreographers. You might want to investigate the choreography being created by such groups as the Danceability Project and CandoCo. Possibilities for dance performance and choreography by people with various kinds of physical disabilities are being explored worldwide. Adam Benjamin's book, Making an Entrance, recently published by Routledge, is an excellent resource on theory and practice of dance for those with disabilities. The following web site has a very good statement by a dancer who, after an accidental fall, found a way to continue in dance and even to expand her dance aesthetic. http://www.dadaanat.net.au/resource/papers/dance.html Patricia Wong Reed College Portland, Oregon
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