Claire Cunningham - "4 Legs good REMIX"

In this lecture demonstration, Claire Cunningham offers insight into her distinctive movement style, "Quanimacy". She shows how the use, repurposing, exploration and estrangement of her crutches - alongside a deliberate departure from dance techniques developed for non-disabled bodies - have shaped her artistic practice. She talks about how her focus has shifted from the relationship between her crutches and her body to the question of how her crutches connect her to the world. She describes how her work is informed by her lived experience of disability and what this means for how society thinks about knowledge, values, connectedness and mutual dependency.

Claire Cunningham is based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is a performer who creates multidisciplinary stage works. One of the most acclaimed and internationally recognised disabled artists in the UK, her work frequently engages with crip and disability experience, practices of care, and social ideas about knowledge and value. In 2021 she received the Deutscher Tanzpreis for "outstanding artistic development in dance". Since October 2023 she has been Einstein Professor for "Choreography, Dance and Disability Arts" at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (HZT) in Berlin. Her solo Songs of the Wayfarer premiered in November 2024, was nominated at the UK Theatre Awards 2025 in the dance category, and continues to tour internationally.

Performed in English with German surtitles. Recommended for ages 14 and up. Duration: approx. 70 min.