POPPING WHEELIES

Is there something odd about dancing in a wheel chair? “When you think about it, theatrical dancing is a pretty odd thing all by itself, remaking and deploying the body in ways it wouldn’t intuitively go. Physical comics, mimes, acrobats, masks, and surrealism have always been at home on the dance stage – along with, more recently, flying bodies, moonwalkers, and okay, wheelchairs. All these exaggerations and ultra-specializations of human behavior can enrich that peculiar ability dance has to superimpose the imaginary on the real before our very eyes.” – Boston Phoenix