ABSTRACT
The sign "Celebrating Ability" hangs the performance space in the Joe Camilleri Centre's central room in Perth. In contemporary arts practice, a useful synergy may be found in the idea of mobilities-driven performance that goes into non-traditional sites and spaces and is designed to be audience inclusive and participatory. The performance artist and disabled rights activist Petra Kuppers offers one intriguing example, taking her arts practice into the ground floor corridor and stairwell of the Chisenhale Dance Studio in London. In creative improvisation and devising practice, the collaborative nature of the performance act is necessary and visible. To integrate is a much more powerful action word – it connotes the active pursuit of disabled performers and the performance diversity of those performers in a mainstream context. In creative improvisation and devising practice, the collaborative nature of the performance act is necessary and visible.
