{"id":206,"date":"2017-11-15T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=206"},"modified":"2017-11-25T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T19:59:16","slug":"petra-kuppers","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/petra-kuppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Petra Kuppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Petra Kuppers<\/strong> is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and a Professor at the University of Michigan. She leads The Olimpias, a performance research collective. Her <em>Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) explores arts-based research methods. She is editor of <em>Somatic Engagement<\/em> (ChainLinks, 2011), and the author of <em>Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), a book of practical exercises for classrooms. A new poetry collection, <em>Pearl Stitch<\/em>, appears in 2016 with Spuyten Duyvil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As an artist, she works interdependently, and makes use of artful support: this poem cites lines from fellow queercrip dancer Marissa Perel\u2019s performance experiments and from experimental writer and bodyworker Bhanu Kapil\u2019s interviews from\u00a0<i>The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers<\/i>\u00a0(2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community performance artist, and a Professor at the University of Michigan. She leads The Olimpias, a performance research collective. Her Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) explores arts-based research methods. She is editor of Somatic Engagement (ChainLinks, 2011), and the author of Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), a book of practical exercises for classrooms. A new poetry collection, Pearl Stitch, appears in 2016 with Spuyten Duyvil. \r\nAs an artist, she works interdependently, and makes use of artful support: this poem cites lines from fellow queercrip dancer Marissa Perel\u2019s performance experiments and from experimental writer and bodyworker Bhanu Kapil\u2019s interviews from\u00a0The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers\u00a0(2001).","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}