“Disabled actor and writer Heather Rose stars in ‘Dance Me to My Song’ (1998)”

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Title: “Disabled actor and writer Heather Rose stars in ‘Dance Me to My Song’ (1998)”
Description: The 1998 film ‘Dance Me to My Song’ stars Heather Rose, who also co-wrote the film. It is about a woman with cerebral palsy, whose carer resents the job. The dramatic tension rises when the two women both take an interest in the same man. The Rolf de Heer-directed film is significant for casting a disabled actor at a time when authentic disability representation was rare, not to mention Rose’s contribution to the screenplay. ‘Dance Me to My Song’ was selected to feature in the Cannes International Film Festival in May 1998. The documentary ‘Heather Rose Goes to Cannes’ (1998, Christopher Corin) follows Rose’s journey from Adelaide to Cannes.
Identifier: AC00140
Publisher: Disability Arts History Australia
datePublished: 1990s
exampleOfWork: "Dance Me To My Song - IMDB"; "Kath Duncan, Gerard Goggin, Christopher Newell (2005) ‘Don’t Talk about Me... Like I’m Not Here': Disability in Australian National Cinema. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine.146/147, pp. 152-159. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.043842788583710"
creator: Heather Rose; Heather Rose
category: Action
Type: Create Action
Format: Text
inLanguage: English
keywords: Disability Arts Practice, Film/TV/New Media, Neurological disability
copyrightNotice: © Disability Arts History Australia, Contributed by Morgan Batch
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20120307143600/https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/dance-me-to-my-song/clip2/

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