The Physically Disabled Dancer and the Affirmative Model of Disability - Paperback

by Lawrence Shapiro (Author)

This volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while at the same time challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphasis on the learning-disabled performer.

Author Biography

Lawrence Shapiro has been a pioneering disabled dancer in his native Canada for over 20 years, is a validated Deaf and Disability Artist with the Canada Council for the Arts and a UK-published dance researcher whose writing on integrated performance has appeared in a variety of publications including Choreographic Practices, Canadian Scholars Press and the Dance Current.