Amputee Dancer/Incredible Prosthetics June 11, 2007

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Lisa Bufano is a dancer and performing artist who has gone through bilateral below knee and finger amputation. Here is a performance from "Five Open Mouths" in which she wears some extremely awesome prosthetic springing feet.

Hit the jump for a shot of her another one of her setups—a spider-like four-appendage extension.

Continued...


While the video doesn't strike me as high art, I'm guessing much of her show is nothing less than living Manga. – Mark Wilson

Dancer With A Difference [via gearfuse]

Comments

She's not so much dancing as running backwards and forwards... repeatedly.

posted-by Luke Devine | June 11, 2007 8:25 PM

I'd hit it.

posted-by Green Gecko | June 12, 2007 3:51 AM

These look like the same 'Cheetah' carbon-fibre prosthetics that were featured in a recent issue of Wired - a South African sprinter (whose name I forget).

posted-by Sean Meacher | June 12, 2007 11:53 AM

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