"One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart" by Lisa Bufano, amputee dancer and artist, 2007.

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Creators and choreographers: Lisa Bufano, Sonsheree Giles, Jerry Smith
Performed by: Lisa Bufano, Sonsheree Giles of AXIS Dance Company
Music by: Jerry Smith
This work was commissioned in part by Axis Dance Company, in association with Alliger Arts.
Cameraman: Mario Miljak
Production: Art Workshop Lazareti
Text from:    • LISA BUFANO - ONE BREATH IS AN OCEAN FOR A...  
"'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."
Text from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Bufano
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.