Exploring New Avenues of Disability Experience

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews dance artist Elisabeth Motley, a New York City-based choreographer, scholar, and teacher whose work is concerned with disability as a framework for creative practice. Elisabeth describes how her journey began in rigorous normative dance practice and how she came to disability by way of a recurring brain disease that impacts her physical and cognitive abilities. Her pedagogy revolves around her own experience and her dreams of a curriculum that is not fixed and that centers disabled students. She pushes boundaries as a teacher with a disability in higher education and works in ways that refuse the system. Elisabeth Motley has a PhD from University of Roehampton in Dance Studies focusing on choreography and disability dance, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, and a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School. Elisabeth is a 2025 Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Artist in Residence. She has been a 2023 Movement Research Access. Movement. Play. (AMP) Artist in Residence, a 2019-2021 Movement Research Artist in Residence, a 2020 & 2021 Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellow and is a recipient of the 2018-2019 Fulbright US-UK Scholar Award. Elisabeth is the co-creator of Crip Movement Lab (co-created with Kayla Hamilton), a pedagogical framework centering cross-disability accessible movement practice. Her writing has been published in Dance Chronicle and Choreographic Practices Journal.

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Exploring New Avenues of Disability Experience is an episode from Dancecast by Silva.

This episode is 00:27:29 long.

This episode was published on Jan 31, 2025.

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