Keynote Speaker announced 2012 Conference
UK based actor, dancer and comedian Kiruna Stamell will be a keynote speaker at the Arts Activated National Conference 2012 presented by Accessible Arts.
Kiruna Stamell talks here about working with Chol Theatre as part of the overall 'imove Project.' This particular production is entitled 'The Extraordinary Pod' and the interview covers the lead up to its performance at Halifax Piece Hall in the UK on 21/08/2010.
At the Arts Activated National Conference 2012, Kiruna will bring her experience of a long list of credits in film, television and theatre from many destinations across the globe including the UK, Europe and back in her native Oz.
Kiruna is known as a fiercely intelligent, hilariously funny, loyal and forthright individual and a thoroughly engaging and entertaining speaker, passionate about the performing arts and the influence her dwarfism has had on her career.
"I think because I meet so much social discrimination because of my height I learnt very early on how my body was politicised. I explore this in my work as an actress, dancer and theatre practitioner, even if the work isn't about my disability because I am recontextualising my body and redefining it amongst a new set of given circumstances, character, situations and stories ... I transcend people’s confined ideas about my body by repositioning it socially and circumstantially ... maybe a doctor in one show or a lawyer in the next or playing a mother and a lover ... it repositions the constant reality and gets the audience to redefine their narrow view of what 'someone like me' is capable of or where were might exist in society," states Kiruna.
Read an interview of the artist.