Crip Moves (Exploratory Working Group)
Crip Moves aims to convene dance scholars, artists, and activists whose work explores D/disability as a socio-political, cultural, and identity-based inquiry. Through a care ethics of interconnectedness, this community-oriented working group will address the ways in which dance, choreography, performance, and movement extend discussions of crip theory, Disability Justice, cripistemology, crip time, disability/crip aesthetics, and critical dance and disability studies, amongst others. Tuning into crip "moves" as both a noun and a verb, we will consider how Sick and D/disabled dances, performances, choreographies, and movements rupture the ableisms and multisystemic hegemonies of conventional dance and theatre.
 Kiera Bono, Exploratory Working Group Co-Chair
Kiera Bono is an interdisciplinary artist and a Ph.D. Candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Working across disability studies, critical race and ethnicity studies, queer and trans studies, and performance studies, Bono's research engages with disability and relationality in performance. Their choreographic practices have recently been supported by the Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Program (2020-2023), The Croft Residency (2022), and the Snug Harbor PASS Residency (2020-2022). They have taught at The City College of New York and Wagner College and have worked as a Writing Fellow at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.
Jose Miguel 'Miggy' Esteban, Exploratory Working Group Co-Chair
Jose Miguel ‘Miggy’ Esteban is a dance/movement artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Miggy’s current choreographic work develops improvisational practices of navigating mad and queer routes to embody Filipinx remembering and belonging through (un)rest. Currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Justice Education, OISE/University of Toronto, Miggy’s research and teaching is oriented through disability studies, black studies, and dance/performance studies. Miggy’s dissertation project reinterprets practices of teaching and learning dance through methods of choreographic narrative that are influenced by disability/mad arts, black radical traditions, indigenous storytelling, and queer performance. Miggy’s work has been published in Canadian Theatre Review, Choreographic Practices, Disability Studies Quarterly, Feral Feminisms, Journal for Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Theatre Journal, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and in various edited volumes.
Elisabeth Motley, Exploratory Working Group Co-Chair
Elisabeth Motley is a Disabled choreographer and scholar whose work examines disability as a framework for choreography and dance. She is an Associate Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College. She holds a PhD in dance studies from University of Roehampton, an MFA in interdisciplinary studies from Goddard College, and a BFA in dance from the Juilliard School. Motley is a 2024-2025 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist in Residence, a 2019-2021 Movement Research Artist in Residence, and the recipient of a 2018 Fulbright US-UK Scholar Award. Her work has been published in Dance Chronicle and Choreographic Practices.
Image Description: A collage photo of the Co-Chairs of DSA Working Group: Crip Moves. On the far left, Kiera stands outside and tilts their head downward with sunlight gently warming the right side of their body. Blurred bits of golden, green, and orange autumn trees glimmer in the background, and Lu Yim's shoulder, back, and dark grey shirt blur in the foreground. Kiera's round, metal-rimmed amber sunglasses mingle with their brown jaw-length hair and the various patterned brown, orange, beige, and grey tiles on their button-down shirt. Photo by Maddie Barkocy. In the middle is a side profile of Miggy, who crouches amidst bushes and white flowers that recede blurrily into the background. Miggy’s fingers gently crawl up from a long-sleeved maroon shirt, over chin and lips, and toward a small ocean of black, wavy hair. The brown skin of Miggy’s cheek is caressed by the palm of a hand, supporting closed eyes that look down in contemplation. Elisabeth Motley, on the far right, is a white woman wearing a white button-up shirt, black pants, and colorful sneakers. She has dark brown hair, and her hands are lifted up to the sides of her head. Motley lays back on a slide in a playground. Her feet and sneakers are tucked up under the bars of the slide. Photo by Mr. Wattson.
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