Remember this one? Beautiful movement captured beautifully. Claire Cunningham turns her crutches in to exquisite partners in her darkly humorous and deeply personal portrait, Ménage à Trois. This film is a taster, atmospherically exposing her signature movement skills in a dim underground basement of The Arches, Glasgow. Go on. It’s only 90 seconds (you’ve got [...]
We popped up to Glasgow last week to film the second 90 second short based on Claire Cunningham, who was just about the open Ménage à Trois - a darkly humorous and deeply personal portrait that explores Claire’s 20-year relationship with her crutches and asks if it’s possible to find love when there are already three [...]
Claire Cunningham is famous for dancing on crutches, but where did the idea to utilize the creative potential of crutches within dance come from? For Claire it began when she was awarded a Creative Scotland Award in 2006, which enabled her to investigate her own movement potential. She was mentored by
US performance artist Bill [...]