Co-Creating Disability Dance (2025)

Jacob’s Pillow Themes | Essays

Available at: https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/themes-essays/what-is-dance/assemble-co-creating-disability-dance/

Katy Dymoke, Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance (2025)

Published in Dance Research

https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2025.0450

Care Ethics and Aesthetics in Post-Rehabilitation Disability Performance (2025)

Published in The Drama Review

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204325000127

Crip Time in Performance (2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle

https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2024.2405332

Fragmenting cripistemology: Gap movement and choreographic practice, with Esteban, J,M. (2024)

Published in Choreographic Practices

https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00069_1

ABSTRACT:

This article attends to the creative process of our choreographic video essay, Mourning Movements (2023). Between the distances of Tkaranto (Toronto) and Lenapehoking (New York City), we explore approaches and methods for choreographic practice through gaps of space, time and differing corporealities. Theorizing our creative collaboration within these gaps, the methodological framework of fragmentation emerges as a network for disjointed choreographic sense-making. Refiguring our ‘gap’ movement as crip choreographic practice, we consider fragmentation as a basis for a choreography that embraces disability, distance, pauses and non-cohesion. We reflect on our practices of score-work, dance improvisation, audio-description, poetry, storytelling, theoretical provocation, text messaging, Zoom meetings and Google Doc harbouring to reveal our collaborative and care-full labour of creation. We offer a proposal of ‘fragmenting cripistemologies’ which considers fragmentation as reciprocal with disabled knowing and questioning or cripistemology. Our proposal imagines disability as a source for fugitive choreographic practice through which we can potentialize, refuse and reinterpret movement.

Crip Aesthetics and a Choreographic Method of Leakiness (2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle

https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2023.2279514

ABSTRACT:

Drawing attention to the affordances and challenges of disability dance and choreography, most notably aesthetic ideals which are antithetical to disability knowing, this research seeks to instigate a discussion on how we might radically envisage disability dance through a crip aesthetics. Theorizing my crip choreographic work Colored Shadow, I offer a method of leakiness as a tool to rupture hegemonic aesthetics of dance, which include compulsory able-bodiedness and able-minded- ness, hierarchies of the stage, and inaccessibility. My proposal of a leaky choreographic method offers insight into the significance of crip theory and crip methodology as paths toward reconsidering and redefining aesthetics.

From Representation to Redistribution: Border Crossings, with Mattingly, K. (2024)

Published in Dance Chronicle

https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2024.2302207

Invitations for Untethering Dance Practice from Systemic Ableism, with Hamilton, K. (2024)

Disrupting Harm in Dance

Available at: https://disruptingdance.com/crip-movement-lab/invitations-for-untethering-dance-practice-from-systemic-ableism

Cory Nakasue and Elisabeth Motley in Conversation (2021)

Critical Correspondence

Available at: https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-

correspondence/cory-nakasue-and-elisabeth-motley-in-conversation/