They are crips, cripples, people with disabilities --these are all phrases they used to define themselves.
The first thing I learned, but will often forget, is that compliments are inherent, and words aren't to be wasted on them. Specifically, I misunderstood "Accent?" as "Excellent." And said thank-you. Then, thankfully, I was corrected, and explained that I was from Stratford, England.
Before all this, the class crucible hit its boiling point and three separate groups merged and chatted playfully.
I was reprimanded for not wearing my cowboy boots.
I stayed after and helped two classmates with their pieces.
When we left the stage, people were still milling about talking about forming a writer's group, for practice and workshopping outside class.
Here are the notes I took on my phone, so I don't forget them.
- "Storm Reading" is play I should read.
- The Olympiads (Olympians?) is a loose, disability advocacy and performance group
- Neil does not like the phrase "Crip" instead prefers "Shape Shifter" or "Twisted Pretzel Alien."
- Sara Kay(?)ne is a stage writer who committed suicide, and who was brilliant according to Petra and a classmate
- Same classmate and I created a performance based on the line "Tell me of your body." Our performance was well received and will be added to for a final assignment, I think
- The (German?) word Ichfrasis, over and over
- The phrase, "The commutative, connotative world."
- The phrase, "Small c catholic."
- On the 24th of October there is a disability outreach event at UofM, then another on the 25th, both based around or pertaining to the concept of Ichfrasis
- The performance piece, with four people, could (might) have
- 4 stages
- life
- ascendance
- descendance
- death
- People turn and sync or unsync
- all ask one speaks
- all speak, one asks
- speak for other people
- the spacing is important:
- moving closer, staying equally far apart
- Location role vs Player role
