Nosotros
October 18th 2008 00:38
Since 2006 I worked as part of a small group who named themselves Nosotros after the idea they were different but still sexy. The notion of Nosotros came after looking at the media information created during the 2000 Sydney Paralympics where there were certain categories of disability and one of them was a word that meant the others it was a French word.
The spirit of the use of the others in this context was those who are unclassifiable (within the otherwise structured measurements of disability).
Our group decided upon the Spanish word, Nosotros.
The process of working on the production was an interesting one. I met with the assembled group several times and we work shopped ideas as well as teased out ideas of realizing theatrical ways to tell our stories.
We were all identifying in some way as Disabled and Queer in the sense that we were all very diverse on every level as a group, and this sense of being different put us very much on the margin of mainstream society.
The origins of the whole project are with a small group called Queer and Differently Abled who formed in Adelaide, South Australia as the result of a Feast Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival forum event. A few artists with disabilities whom identify as Queer.
Identifying as Queer and Disabled places the individual on the margin of a marginalized people. It may be construed as being the lowest of the low. It may indeed be the lesbian in a wheelchair which, for a time was a punch line to a mainstream joke.
The next phase of production was a series of sessions where the group - after several weeks of preliminary work shop meetings, met with a choreographer Kat Worth, to work with her directional eye putting something together with what we had started to form within the group as individuals, and some emerging material that was being created by combined efforts in the group.
Ultimately the first showing of the work was made in 2006 as a work in progress. The work-in-progress took place around a large table in the Ballroom of a mansion called Carclew in North Adelaide, South Australia. We worked more on the show towards a production in 2007 during the Feast Festival.
Les Autres: French for “the others’’ and contains athletes with a mobility impairment or other loss of physical function that does not fall strictly under one of the other five categories. For example, dwarfism, multiple sclerosis or birth deformities of the limbs such as thalidomide.
Our group decided upon the Spanish word, Nosotros.
The process of working on the production was an interesting one. I met with the assembled group several times and we work shopped ideas as well as teased out ideas of realizing theatrical ways to tell our stories.
We were all identifying in some way as Disabled and Queer in the sense that we were all very diverse on every level as a group, and this sense of being different put us very much on the margin of mainstream society.
The origins of the whole project are with a small group called Queer and Differently Abled who formed in Adelaide, South Australia as the result of a Feast Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival forum event. A few artists with disabilities whom identify as Queer.
Identifying as Queer and Disabled places the individual on the margin of a marginalized people. It may be construed as being the lowest of the low. It may indeed be the lesbian in a wheelchair which, for a time was a punch line to a mainstream joke.
The next phase of production was a series of sessions where the group - after several weeks of preliminary work shop meetings, met with a choreographer Kat Worth, to work with her directional eye putting something together with what we had started to form within the group as individuals, and some emerging material that was being created by combined efforts in the group.
Ultimately the first showing of the work was made in 2006 as a work in progress. The work-in-progress took place around a large table in the Ballroom of a mansion called Carclew in North Adelaide, South Australia. We worked more on the show towards a production in 2007 during the Feast Festival.
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