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Subject: Re: [OZADV] "Dance Me To My Song" - Re: Fwd: Australian
Cinema.
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:09:10 +0900
From: Maurice <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: OZADVOCACY-- Disability rights in
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Hi there Jai Guru,
I think it was mentioned by a few and yes you are right Heather did
write
the story and star in the film but she didn't produce it. Heather and
another guy here in SA worked on the story over the early version of the
internet email, the old bulletin boards.
The Director/ Producer Ralph Dewere (wrong spelling) also did 'Bad Boy
Bubby' another film which had a focus on disability and an incestual
relationship between Bubby and his Mother. Incedently, Heather Rose
made a
brief appearance in this film also.
Just as a footnote, the 'Carer from Hell' in Dance me to my song who's
real
name is Jacki Kennedy is now a close friend of Heather's as is her
Father.
Regards Maurice
At 05:41 AM 18/06/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Katie
>
>I'm really surprised anybody hasn't mentioned "Dance Me To My Song" yet.
It goes further than the Doco "Untold Desires" to 'redress the balance'
in
a way - I was in that.
>
>"Dance Me To My Song" was written, starred in and also produced, I think,
by Heather Rose, a woman disabled by severe Cerebral Palsy from South
Australia. It's a love story - about how the woman in the picture
"steals"
the affections of a guy from her carer - who must be the carer from
Hell!
You feel like cheering when she gets her come-uppance!
>
>(It was interesting for me to find the sex scene with Heather Rose erotic.
I guess that's because I, like many of us, I guess, have never been
shown
that a body like ours could ever BE in a sexy scene in a movie... I
must
say, after 18 years of a relationship with the same guy it still
surprises
me that he say MY body turns him on. I have learnt to accept it, even
though it "does not compute".
>
>My minister, from a small metaphysical-teaching church, helped me
immeasurably in this area - he once told me, amongst other things of
course, that just MY perception of me was just that - MY perception -
and I
was insulting others by not accepting that their perception can be
different and better.
>
>(And as for people who have worse perception - well - accept them, the
person - but know that I AM a "section" if you like of Divine energy and
know that their perception was "shallow" I think he would have said.)
>
>VERY useful stuff !
>
>Actually if I had my way, every prospective carer should be shown "Dance
Me To My Song" - it exposes, at times brutally, what some people must
say
behind our backs, tho not often to our faces - at least I have never
experienced what was in the film. I don't mind admitting I cried angry
tears all the way home...
>
>Jai Guru Dev,
>
>"Sundari [pronounced Soon-{like lun in lunatic}-DHE-ree (my e-mail name)].
>
>==============================================
>Interested in psychiatric disability issues?
>The Australian mental health consumer movement
>has its own discussion list, OZMAD:
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