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 [...]
With PUSH ME we get to feature the work of some fabulous artists and companies. Want to know which ones? Then read on… We have Mish Weaver/Stumble Dance Circus with Box of Frogs giving us a poignant, original and funny exploration of passion and disappointment - a Bipolar Circus, a manically depressed form of entertainment (its their pic here), Bobby [...]