"One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart" by Lisa Bufano, amputee dancer and performance artist

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"'One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart' is an unusual modern dance duet for a disabled dancer and an able-bodied dancer that is informed by the relationship between physical transformation and identity. In this performance, the dancers wear 28" wooden stilts secured to their arms and legs. The stilts are constructed from familiar, every-day objects to create illusion and are a visually compelling tool of transformation. The queen-Anne style table legs enable the dancers to create a basic illusion of table and chair shape. Through the quality of their movement, the dancers are transformed through a wide range of imagery: animated furniture, magical toys, 8-legged insect, 4-legged gazelle, 2-legged birds. The affect is an eerie otherworldliness as two dramatically different bodies navigate a movement and sound landscape that is both enabled and constrained by their use of wooden stilts."
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Lisa Bufano (1972 – 2013) was an American interdisciplinary performance artist whose work incorporated elements of doll-making, fabric work, animation, and dance. A competitive gymnast as a child (and a go-go dancer in college )she became a bilateral below-the-knee and total finger-thumb amputee due to a life-threatening staphylococcus bacterial infection at the age of 21.