'Gimp' dancers to take stage March 12, 2009

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Dancers usually have a specific body type. They're usually long, lean and limber. But some dancers are redefining the stereotype.

That's because these dancers are disabled, and some are even missing limbs. And yet, for them, like other performers, dance is about the physical and artistic.

"This is not a piece people are interested in seeing, people are afraid of it," Heidi Latsky said.
She is talking about a dance she choreographed and is performing in, and it has a startling name. It's called Gimp.

"We really wanted people to think about the title and how does it change what their notion of disability and dance is," Latsky said.

For more information on "Ginp" visit
http://www.heidilatskydance.net/gimp.html

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• Dancing
• Arts
• Disability
• Amputee
• Cerebral Palsy
• The Gimp Project
• Heidi Latsky
• Jeffrey Freeze
• Lawrence Carter-Long
• Christina Briggs
• Catherine Long
• Lezlie Frye
• Nate Crawford
• Jennifer Bricker

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