The Tallahassee Democrat
Originally published February 19, 2008
BY Mark Hinson
Axis brings complex dance to Tallahassee
Excerpt:
It isn't every day you watch a dancer with metallic, prosthetic legs perform a duet to a mournful country ballad by Gillian Welch, but the Axis Dance Company is not your typical dance company.
Axis rolled, jumped, crawled, piggy-backed and gracefully waltzed its way into town on Monday night as part of the Seven Days of Opening Nights arts festival. Several of the dancers were in wheelchairs, some were able-bodied and the rather amazing Lisa Bufano danced with and without her artificial legs.
Liz Walker Interview
May 27, 2007
Channel 4, Sunday With Liz Walker
NPR Radio Story
February 06, 2007
Andrea Shea, WBUR Morning Edition
Dancer With A Difference
ALLSTON, Mass. - February 06, 2007 - The body of a dancer is celebrated as physical perfection on stage. Long, muscular limbs, executing an almost super-human range of motion, help define this form of expression. But a Boston-based artist is winning raves for challenging that notion.
Disability Culture Watch (http://similinton.com/blog/)
January 24, 2007
Simi Linton
(Two) Bodies of Work - Dancing
Excerpt:
All performance is about granting permission to stare. The two women give us ample time to acclimate to their bodies and study the particulars of their movement. In Bufano’s piece, there are slow passages and moments when she is quite still, sitting on a chair or lying on the floor. Bufano lives as a disabled woman, with the attendant staring that comes with that territory. She is a bilateral leg and finger amputee. As she says on her web site: "Despite my own terror and discomfort in being watched (or, maybe, because of it), I am finding that being in front of viewers as a performer with deformity can produce a magnetic tension that could be developed into strength."
The New York Sun
January 15, 2007
Joy Goodwin, Arts & Letters
A Dancer's Hard-Won Debut
Excerpt:
Jogging around the studio in close-fitting lycra to the driving rhythms of Japanese pop, Ms. Bufano looked fit and sleek. When she struck a pose, the eye was drawn not to the shiny prosthetics but to her steely gaze. Despite the missing fingers, her fists looked tough and strong when she held them above her head. Intense yet unmistakably groovy, she suggested a cool, confident downtown woman.
