Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance

Contents

• Introduction: caring performance, performing care - Amanda Stuart Fisher
• Part I Performing interrelatedness
• 1 Care ethics and improvisation: can performance care? - Maurice Hamington
• 2 Towards an aesthetics of care - James Thompson
• 3 Performing tenderness: fluidity and reciprocity in the performance of caring in Fevered Sleep's Men & Girls Dance - Amanda Stuart Fisher
• Part II Care-filled performance
• 4 Caring beyond illness: an examination of Godder's socially engaged art and participatory dance for Parkinson's work - Sara Houston
• 5 Convivial theatre: care and debility in collaborations between non-disabled and learning disabled theatre makers - Dave Calvert
• 6 Road care - Jen Archer-Martin and Julieanna Preston
• Part III Care deficits
• 7 Clean Break: a practical politics of care - Caoimhe McAvinchey
• 8 Performing a museum of living memories: beholding young people's experiences and expressions of care through oral history performance - Kathleen Gallagher and Rachel Turner-King
• 9 'Still Lives': Syrian displacement and care in contemporary Beirut - Ella Parry-Davies
• Part IV Care as performance
• 10 Verbatim practice as research with care-experienced young people: an 'aesthetics of care' through aural attention - Sylvan Baker and Maggie Inchley
• 11 Acts of care: applied drama, 'sympathetic presence' and person-centred nursing - Matt Jennings, Pat Deeny and Karl Tizzard-Kleister
• 12 Taking care of the laundry in care homes - Jayne Lloyd
• 13 Performing the 'aesthetics of care' - James Thompson