After losing her lower legs and most of her fingers and thumbs, Bufano began her performance and dancing career when a professor at the University of Linz doing research on the lives of amputees discovered her web page and offered her a stipend to perform in Vienna [REF].
Her dance work typically incorporated a variety of prosthetics and props[REF][REF] (such as using orange Queen Anne table legs as legs and arms),[REF] but also included segments where her unadorned body was the focus of the performance [REF].