I’ve been wanting for ages to find a pretext for posting this, but I can’t, so I’m giving up and just posting it. Hey, it’s Friday night! Check out the amazing dance work of Lisa Bufano, a quadruple amputee who lost all her fingers and had a bilateral below knee amputation at age 21 due to toxic shock. I’ve been following her work as an artist – including her amazing dolls and her various performance art intertubes endeavours – for quite a few years now. It’s fabulous to see her now coming into her own as a recognised and celebrated dancer. You can read an article about Lisa at Girlistic Magazine’s Feminism and Fashion issue (scroll down through the pdf to page 24) – which looks at the feminist politics of her work – and you can have a look at her more recent dance work via vodcasts downloadable from her website.
Originally focused on animation and doll making as a means to explore her body, in 2005 she turned the tables and made her body the focus of her creative expression, exploring dance and performance.
Image courtesy of Strange Dolls.
She and I share a leg. In a way!
I hope you’re practicing safe socks.
There’s a double entendre in there that’s really doubled!
ah bugger. It’s still modern dance though, innit? Look, I really sincerely tried to give a shit about that as an art form, I really faked it hard the whole 18 months I went out with an exponent of the art form, but it’s just so damn pointless. Big props to Lisa, I just wish she was doing sculpture or something.
And if ticket sales say anything at all, they say “nobody in the world likes this as art. Give up. Try something else.”
(please note this is about the pointlessness of modern dance, not about feminist dancers in general).
Kim:
Bloody brilliant. Good on her.
[can't download anything video here though].
Modern dance can be sublime:
http://bourdieu_boy.blip.tv/file/835039/
But I think I would prefer the term performance art to describe Lisa Bufano’s work.