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Debut of my first performance art series in the Tampa Bay Area...

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Solo interactive show by Amber DiPietra in an intimate venue, as part of The Tampa Fringe Festival.  Go here for tickets.  www.tampafringe.org   Thurs, May 3, 730pm.  Fri, May 4th, 1030pm.  Sat, May 5th, 5pm.  Sun, May 6th, 215pm.   Weds, May 9th, 6pm. Sat, May 12th, 730pm. @ HCC Studio Theatre - 1411 E 11th Avenue, Ybor City, FL 33605 For disability access questions and requests, including ASL, please contact me. 415 867 1124. amberdipietra@gmail.com This piece explores how theater can be experienced as bodywork--like a massage, a yoga class, a therapeutic zen dance session. It is a meditation on gravity, rest, flow, and slow movement through experiments in physical improv and contact. Diverse bodies and abilities unfold into variable social sculptures. Some theorists say disability is a social performance, situated along a spectrum of what is considered “the normal body”. The same could be said for the normal body. How

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The first run of my show starts in one week! pic.twitter.com/74EqiE0Zwb — amber dipietra (@thebodypoetik) April 26, 2018 from Twitter https://twitter.com/thebodypoetik April 25, 2018 at 11:03PM via IFTTT

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“Mini Me” actor’ssuicide. My statement on Facebook. Don’t be confused. It’s not dwarfism that drives people to despair, it’s social ignorance and cruelty. Stunted social imaginations… pic.twitter.com/oZgzZeqPWj — amber dipietra (@thebodypoetik) April 23, 2018 from Twitter https://twitter.com/thebodypoetik April 23, 2018 at 12:39PM via IFTTT

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Yay, I'm here!!! https://t.co/zStReLy89A — amber dipietra (@thebodypoetik) April 20, 2018 from Twitter https://twitter.com/thebodypoetik April 20, 2018 at 03:50PM via IFTTT

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This weekend, headed to @nolapoetry to give a talk on poetry and divination with Mg Roberts and Selah Saterstrom. I will focus on Tantric practices and using spine as a divining rod for the deep well of fluency within us. — amber dipietra (@thebodypoetik) April 16, 2018 from Twitter https://twitter.com/thebodypoetik April 16, 2018 at 10:01AM via IFTTT

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Sumati Sparks @lifeoflovenfun is interviewing me for her Leading Edge Love podcast tonight! — amber dipietra (@thebodypoetik) April 10, 2018 from Twitter https://twitter.com/thebodypoetik April 10, 2018 at 02:23PM via IFTTT

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During a talk about your art in the context of the "disability" rights movement, you explain the socio-political importance of the term, since it's not really used in the area. Audience member says, "My friend calls herself otherly-abled, so I'm going to use that." Your response? — amber dipietra (@thebodypoetik) April 8, 2018 from Twitter https://twitter.com/thebodypoetik April 08, 2018 at 10:25AM via IFTTT

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