The wheelchair dancer within the context of spectacles

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reflect about wheelchair dancer participation and social inclusion within the context of presentations and spectacles open to the public. We adopt qualitative research to enhance and complement investigation concerning study subject, analyzing interview applied to a group of twelve wheelchair dancers. We utilized analysis proposals to make discussion and reflexion about the dancers ansewers. The result of the worked out in details discussions about the dancers speech in wheelchairs detach the dance as artistic product and don”t put in focus the deficiency of the dancer but fortfy in the stage context and in one who has spectations relationship, a new social identify, the artistic identify.