How Does Disability Performance Travel?

ISBN-13: 9781032138039 / Twarda / 2023 / 360 str.

Opis

This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.

Spis treści

Contributor Biographies

 

Introduction: How Does Disability Performance Travel?

Christiane Czymoch, Kate Maguire-Rosier, and Yvonne Schmidt

 

Prologue Neil Marcus: Storm Reading Tour
Introduced by Petra Kuppers and Raquel Escobar

 

Part One: The Politics of Touring and Travelling

1.       Putting Myself into People’s Space:
A Performer’s Journey Through World Stages
Nadia Adame

2.       The Journey of Maui and Different Light:
Fellow Travelling and Learning-Disabled Theatre
Tony McCaffrey

3.       Travel Poetics
Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira

4.       How Disability Performance Travels in Australia:
The Reality Under the Rhetoric
Bree Hadley, with Eddie Paterson, Madeleine Little, and Kath Duncan

Part Two: International Flows and Cultural Settings

5.       The Travels of The Apartment
Alexandra Dunaeva

6.       Teatro Patologico Abroad: A Medea for International Audiences
Joseph Paul Hill

7.       How Disability Performances Travel within Taiwan:
Sustaining Confrontations and Letting Differences Coexist in I am a normal person No.1 and No.2
I-Lien Ho Part Three: Embodying Spaces, Mobilizing Environments

8.       Unsettling Sitting Modes of Living:
The Disability of Sitting as Creative Environmental Mobility
Ciane Fernandes

9.       Travel, Mobility, and Kinetic Hierarchies in Disability Performance
Megan Johnson

10.     Building Communities Online: #DisabilityTwitter and Digital Mobility
Jessica Watkin

11.     The Animacy of Ekphrasis:
Documenting Performance as Acts of Unfurling Reciprocity
Bronwyn Preece

Part 4: Local, Site-Specific Work, Microcosms, and the Periphery

12.     HAPPY ISLAND and the Islands within the Island
Henrique Amoedo, Diogo Gonçalves, Paula Lebre, and Elisabete Monteiro

13.     The Travels of a Municipal Theatre Group for People with Learning Disabilities: Attempts at Subverting the Axes of Injustice
Vibeke Glørstad

14.     Optimistic Becomings: Learning Disability Performance Outward Bound
Margaret Ames

 

Index

 

O autorze

Christiane Czymoch works in the field of media accessibility and is a Researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Kate Maguire-Rosier is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Drama Department at the University of Manchester.

Yvonne Schmidt is a Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator of the research projects “Aesthestics of the Im/Mobile” and “EcoArtLab” at the Bern Academy of the Arts.