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- Art exposes,

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art reveals what's happening

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behind the curtain.

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♪ There's a fire
in the freezer ♪

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♪ There's some
blood on the rose ♪

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♪ There's a broken
puppet on the wall ♪

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♪ I just saw it's eyes glow

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♪ I thought it was
just a limp machine ♪

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♪ That was damaged by the road

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♪ But he's awake
now and I believe ♪

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♪ He's a toy no more

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♪ Broken puppet with
your strings that fall ♪

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♪ Will you show me how
you move on your own ♪

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♪ Cut loose like a ladybug

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♪ That's climbing out
of its rabbit hole ♪

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♪ Free fallin' like
a corporate rogue ♪

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♪ Will you tell me how
you bleed on your own ♪

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When I was about three years
old. I started playing piano.

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I actually recorded
some music when I was 14

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and I was selling
it to raise money

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for my trip to Costa Rica
where I had my injury.

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I have a C5 spinal cord injury,

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so I don't have a
lot of hand function.

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Three years into my injury,

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found out I could
still make music.

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Started a band called
Treading North.

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That band broke up
and I started Freaque.

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♪ Pinocchio had it wrong

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♪ There's no such
thing as real boys ♪

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♪ We try and try and try again

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♪ But we'll never fit the mold

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♪ The illusion of
our freedom rings ♪

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♪ Over bodies that have coiled

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♪ They're drained of
all their agency ♪

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♪ And deflated leaking joy

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I remember one night I was
working on music on my computer,

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which is usually the way
I write, and I was like,

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maybe I'll go downstairs
and play the piano.

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It was this sort of cathartic,

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deep connection that I'd
been missing for a long time

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with the piano.

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And so I was able to kind of
reignite that relationship

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through writing, you know,

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one note at a time and it kind
of gave me this new avenue,

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this new path to create.

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And I think since those songs
are so sparse musically,

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I was really able to start
experimenting with more poetry

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and more lyrics.

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♪ Broken puppet with
your strings that fall ♪

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♪ Will you show me how
you move on your own ♪

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♪ Cut loose like a ladybug

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♪ That's climbing out
of its rabbit hole ♪

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♪ Free fallin' like
a corporate rogue ♪

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♪ Will you tell me how
you bleed on your own ♪

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♪ Feel on your own

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♪ Be on your own

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We took that idea of one
note at a time to the extreme

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and realizing like, well,

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what if I do that
with my old body?

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(suspenseful music)

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A Cripple's Dance
is a live music,

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live dance production
performed and created

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by people with
spinal cord injuries.

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I would literally get
on the floor on a mat

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and I would be moving down there

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and I have no movement
below my armpits,

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so all I was doing

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was sort of gestural
movements on the ground.

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And there's
something really like

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really empowering about that.

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What they were gonna see
was so deeply vulnerable.

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I wanted to bring them into that

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and invite them to be
vulnerable themselves.

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It's not about letting
your limitation

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limit you sort of,

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it's more about
using the limitation

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to burst everything wide open

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and make magic through
your limitations.

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All right, let's
spread across the room

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and we're gonna do some
solo anchoring exploration.

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- Cool.

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- I started at Young
Dance in fall of 2021.

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As I started thinking about
what we're doing in class

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and sort of taking a little
bit more of a creative role,

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things have like really started
to shift for me creatively.

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I think it comes in
line with my excitement

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for more improv-based
performance.

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- That was awesome.

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- That was awesome.

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(calm music)

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- A thing I'm starting
to discover about dance

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and I think it's been
a process of discovery

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over the last few years.

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The way that I dance,

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the way that I move doesn't
need to look a certain way,

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that's not just
enough but exciting.

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I think similarly
that I can make music

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that sounds good

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or interesting to my own ears.

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You know, my body is so
different from the standard

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and I wanna explore
that and tell that story

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because I think there are
so many people out there

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who are struggling
with similar things

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and it is this sort
of like the floodgates

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are bursting wide
open kind of feeling.

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And I have no idea
what is coming next,

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but I know something's coming.

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(calm music)

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(calm music)

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- [Announcer] This program
was produced in collaboration

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with the Center for
the Art of Medicine

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at the University of
Minnesota Medical School.

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And funded by the Minnesota
Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund

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and the citizens of Minnesota.

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(calm music)