How Does Disability Performance Travel?: Access, Art, and Internationalization
- Editor: Czymoch, Christiane
- Editor: Maguire-Rosier, Kate
- Editor: Schmidt, Yvonne
How Does Disability Performance Travel?: Access, Art, and Internationalization
- Editor: Czymoch, Christiane
- Editor: Maguire-Rosier, Kate
- Editor: Schmidt, Yvonne
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This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.
Disability arts festivals are growing in different parts of the world; theatre and dance companies with disabled artists are increasingly touring and collaborating with international partners. At the same time, theatre spaces are often not accessible, and the necessity of mobility excludes some disabled artists from being part of an international disability arts community. How does disability performance travel, who does not travel – and why? What is the role of funding and producing structures, disability arts festivals, and networks around the world? How do the logics of international (co-)producing govern the way in which disability art is represented internationally? Who is excluded from being part of a touring theatre or dance company, and how can festivals, conferences, and other agents of a growing disability culture create other forms of participation, which are not limited to physical co-presence?
This study will contextualize disability aesthetics, arts, media, and culture in a global frame, yet firmly rooted in its smaller national, state and local community settings and will be of great interest to students and scholars in the field.
Contents
- 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
