Billy on the Possibilities of Education
Billy felt that the audience members were challenged to think about disability in different ways by their participation in FRAP - the community that was created that evening provided a space to begin these conversations. "I think that there’s a lot more that came out of this for the performers than for the audience this year. But I really like the questions, because its good that they had questions and its good that they didn’t know what to do with their Braille paper, its good that they didn’t know whether or not to get up and dance because it means that they are asking questions and that’s the whole reason we’re here, right?"
Billy made connection between their experience working with folks with disabilities and the empowerment that could be found both in AUMI and in FRAP. Through exposure to different ways of being embodied, to different ways of connecting with people (both with and without disability), people's understandings of disability were shifted. These were moments of education that had the potential to change the ways we think about bodies, social interaction, and possibility.
"It was rewarding for me to hear a lot of the different ways that people who don’t necessarily identify as belonging to disability community were now thinking about disability as a result of seeing you know, you have somebody with a physical disability teaching everybody to do that body roll. Which I still don’t got down, but um, it was just cool to see those switched roles... you know, you got, you think back to where I was in the public schools, I am going to help this kid shake an egg shaker, that’s what we’re doing today."
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