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A portrait of Petra Kuppers wearing a black infinity scarf, grey sweater, bright yellow rimmed

and green bridge glasses and shaved head

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability She is the Artistic Director of The

culture activist, a wheelchair dancer, and a Olimpias, an international disability

community performance artist. She creates culture collective, and co-creates

participatory community performance Turtle Disco, a somatic writing studio,

environments that think/feel into public with her wife, poet and dancer

space, tenderness, site-specific art, access Stephanie Heit, from their home in

and experimentation. Petra grounds herself Ypsilanti, Michigan.

in disability culture methods, and uses

ecosomatics, performance, and speculative Her next academic book project, Eco

writing to engage audiences toward more Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative

socially just and enjoyable futures. She Performance Encounters, will appear

teaches at the University of Michigan in with the University of Minnesota Press

performance studies and disability culture, in early 2022.

and is also an advisor on the low-residency

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard Petra participated as the Established

College. Artist for our Art as Wellness Art Talk.

Petra received the American Society for

Theatre Research’s best dance/theatre

book award, the National Women’s Caucus

for the Arts’ Award for Arts and Activism,

and her performance poetry collection Gut

Botany was named one of the top ten US

poetry books of 2020 by the New York

Public Library.

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