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CHRONIC PUNK CRIP WAACK - Posing

This is a how-to reference video as part of the online program CHRONIC PUNK CRIP WAACK: A Punking-Waacking Street Dance Program For Folks In Chronic Pain, Crippled, Cane-Using, Mobility Needs, and Chronically Injured/Ill. Across 8 weekly online sessions in Fall 2025, a cohort of 10 participants connected queer street dance, somatics, & disability justice through critical dance praxis. This program was funded by ArtReach and Toronto Arts Council. VIDEO CREDITS: Featuring: Cassandra Myers and Charlotte Carbone Videographer and Editor: Michelle "Ky" Hanitijo Special Thanks: Toronto Dance Theatre and CanAsian Dance MORE INFORMATION What is CHRONIC PUNK? Punking/Waacking for chronic pain! Punking emerged in 1970s Los Angeles gay nightclubs as a self-expressive dance for racialized gay men. Punking is an embodied method of anti-oppression and collective liberation work but its modern evolution called Waacking often excludes disabled bodies when the able-bodied flexibility, strength, and endurance required to participate risk devaluation, disposal, and heartbreak. Currently, disabled street dance does not exist as its own subculture, as disabled street dancers are not gathering publicly and loudly, but rather practicing in the safety of privacy. The Sixth Sense Collective is the first of its kind to dream disabled Punking-Waacking into existence by embodying slowness, mapping crip pain and pleasure, and valuing disability as a method of dance research. Centering the Punking element of "posing"— originally based on 1920s silent film starlets, we instead filter our “poses” through the lens of chronic pain, inspired by our own crip photos and other chronically ill folks in all their agency and power. Posing and storytelling shifts to everyday real events, movement patterns, and gestures of disability, such as physiotherapy, self-massage, and using mobility devices.