Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire - Lauren Rile Smith on Feminist Circus Art and Disability Body Love

Lauren Rile Smith on Feminist Circus Art and Disability Body Love

03/09/16 • 37 min

Trapeze artist, archivist, and poet Lauren Rile Smith shares her experience directing the feminist and queer circus arts troupe Tangle Movement Arts, how disability and chronic pain shape her relationship to her dancing body, and the politics of a life onstage.

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