Cinema, Podium en
Werkplek in Kortrijk

Claire Cunningham (UK/SC)

Songs of the Wayfarer

Dance
Duration: 75 minutes
English spoken, Dutch & French surtitled
12+
Budascoop

Relaxed Performance

20.11 & 21.11

Relaxed performance: For these shows special facilities have been put in place to provide a welcoming atmosphere for the audience, tailored to the needs of each individual: low-intensity lighting in the auditorium, people can enter and leave the auditorium as they wish, they can speak freely and express their emotions, and attention is paid to sound stimuli…

Free touch tour for blind and visually impaired people, one hour before the start of the show

CUBO
What is the choreography of crip* navigation? To which north does the compass of crip-knowledge point? What are the maps we would draw? What can be learned from those of us who reach for the ground through crutches, as 4-legged creatures?
I really love turning into this sort of four-legged creature. All the little places that you can wedge the crutch really right into a corner or into a crack. In Scotland, we’d say nooks and crannies. And I get so lost in that sort of play…when the ground really becomes …my companion. ” – Claire Cunningham
In this new solo from one of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Claire Cunningham sets out to examine the act of journeying itself, drawing comparisons with the world of mountaineering and inspiration from Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), re-engaging with her past as a classical singer to reframe our vision of journeying, craft and outdoor encounter through a crip lens.
*crip is a political and cultural identity embraced by some disabled individuals. 

Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland.  One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Cunningham’s work is rooted in the study of Crip & disabled experience, practices of care and questioning societal ideas of knowledge and value.

Play dates

Conceived, choreographed and performed – Claire Cunningham
Artistic Collaborator – Julia Watts Belser
Associate Director – Dan Watson
Dramaturg – Luke Pell
Set and Costume Design – Bethany Wells
Lighting Design – Chris Copland
Sound Design – Matthias Herrmann
A Claire Cunningham Production.
Co-commissioned and co-produced by Mousonturm Frankfurt, Next Festival Kotrijk, HAU Hebbel am Ufer & No Limits Festival Berlin, No Limits Festival Hong Kong, Kammerspiele Munich, Sadler´s Wells London and Dampfzentrale Bern.
Created as part of the Einstein Strategic Professorship „Choreography, Dance and Disability Arts“at the HZT Berlin

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