Disability And Contemporary Performance
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Author | : Petra Kuppers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136500405 |
Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.
Author | : Thomas Richard Fahy |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780415929974 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : P. Kuppers |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230316581 |
Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.
Author | : Petra Küppers |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781452909158 |
In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses, films like David Cronenbergs Crash that fetishize body wounds, representations of the AIDS virus on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations, and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ram'rez.
Author | : Petra Kuppers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2017-11-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137605723 |
This succinct and engaging text examines the complex relationship between theatre and disability, bringing together a wide variety of performance examples in order to explore theatrical disability through the conceptual frameworks of disability as spectacle, narrative, and experience. Accessible and affordable, this is an ideal resource for theatre students and lovers everywhere.
Author | : Carrie Sandahl |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0472021729 |
"A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn." -Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as "bodies in commotion"-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book's essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.
Author | : Petra Kuppers |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452966877 |
Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures. Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge. Traditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.
Author | : Kimball King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1135309035 |
This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother, and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.
Author | : Ann Millett-Gallant |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 136 |
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ISBN | : 3031482514 |
Author | : Sandra Umathum |
Publisher | : Diaphanes |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Actors with disabilities |
ISBN | : 9783037345245 |
Celebrated as an outstanding conceptual dance piece on the one hand and harshly criticised for being a contemporary freak show on the other, 'Disabled Theater' by Jerome Bel and Theater Hora polarises the public. In either case, the production raises central questions on the role of people with cognitive differences in our society, as well as on basic norms and conventions of theatre and dance. This book takes 'Disabled Theater' as a springboard to a broader discussion on theatre and disability at the intersections of politics and aesthetics, inclusion and exclusion, virtuosity and dilettantism, identity and empowerment.