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Disability as an inspiration for dancing!
The second Crossing Dance Festival is opened in Dusseldorf.
Writer of article: Nicole Strecker

The dancing of this time has a problem: The Body.
Every today choreograph wants to find out new, own moving languages. Only a few have success with that, or your body has to be different. This happens with" remix Dance Company" from Capetown. Two of the 5 dancers are in a wheelchair. They will leave their "thing" and you never know what kind of movements they will make than. The "other body" of the disabled body has unpredictable possibilities.
The group dancers with and without disabilities had worked with the kolner Choreograph Gerda Konig with the name" white lines, black field, colorful games. You can see it at the yesterday opened dance festival in Dusseldorf.   
"Crossing stand for crossing borders like: cultural, body wise, form wise, said Koning" She started the festival in 2006. With this she is going further then her own productions where she wants to "break with the rule" of the nowadays stage dance.
This year there will be 5 different groups at the festival. Out Spain a group with Down syndrome, where they in Seville go to a special school to train to become professional stage dancers.

Especially in her wonderful, ironic solo, Estela Lapponi, a Brazilian dancer with a disability caused by a stroke, puts her body in action in surprising ways. Sometimes she dances excessively on one side of her body, as if it were full of energy. Afterwards, she looks at her transformation with sarcasm, as if her body part were a strange object.
Estela Lapponi's disability is: inspiration.

(Tradução livre de Mario Weijers  alemão/inglês)