We Run Like Rivers: FLOW // CRIP JOY

Concept, direction, performance: Claire Cunningham and Julia Watts Belser / Music: Matthias Herrmann / Fotos: Claire Cunningham

Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland. One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Cunningham’s work is often rooted in the study and use/misuse of her crutches and her deep interest in the lived experience of disability and its implications to societal notions of knowledge, value, connection and interdependence.  

Julia Watts Belser is a rabbi, scholar, activist, and spiritual teacher.  She is a professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University and core faculty in Georgetown’s Disability Studies program, where she brings Jewish texts into conversation with queer, disability, and feminist ethics.  She currently directs a project on disability, climate change, and environmental justice – and when she’s not teaching or writing, she’s a passionate wheelchair hiker.