Kass Prus
Friday 18th July
16:15 - 17:00
GMT +1
Cripping the Full Out/Marking Binary
Biography / Biografía
Kass Prus (they/them) is a Ukrainian-Canadian artsworker and movement therapist based in Toronto, Canada. Their systems-level work helps shrink the gap between intent and impact in arts, culture, and wellness spaces. Their one-on-one work supports marginalized clients in finding agency and improving the accessibility of their own life inside of unjust and traumatizing systems. Kass’s current art-making explores using contemporary performance to queer and crip Slavic folk arts practices. Their life is shaped by lived experience of queerness, transness, neurodivergence, disability, and survivorship, and even when joy feels out of reach, Kass insists that it’s still worth fighting for.
Abstract / Resumen
Join a gathering of movers curious to investigate the spectrum of “marking” to “full out” through a disability-informed lens. Does your training equate “full out” with “good” and “marking” with “less than”? Or have you trained in approaches that challenge this binary? Together, we’ll reflect on inherited concepts that we face in rehearsal and the choreographic process, and consider how they connect to broader questions of accessibility, sustainability, and care in dance. In this workshop we will do movement experiments in our own spaces to question internalized ideas around “full out-ness”, as well as collect insights in a shared digital document.