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This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.
List of contents
Contributor Biographies
Neil Marcus: Storm Reading Tour
INTRODUCED BY PETRA KUPPERS AND RAQUEL ESCOBAR
Introduction: How Does Disability Performance Travel?
CHRISTIANE CZYMOCH, KATE MAGUIRE-ROSIER, AND YVONNE SCHMIDT
PART 1
The Politics of Touring and Travelling
1 Putting Myself into People’s Spaces: 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
TRANSLATED BY MARIA CAROLINA 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 2
International Flows and Cultural Settings
5 The Travels of The ApartmentALEKSANDRA DUNAEVA
TRANSLATED BY YULIA SAVIKOVSKAYA
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 3
Embodying Spaces, Mobilizing Environments
8 Unsettling Sitting Modes of Living: The Disability of Sitting as Creative Environmental Mobility
CIANE FERNANDES
ENGLISH REVISION BY MELINA SCIALOM
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 GONCALVES, ELISABETE MONTEIRO, AND PAULA LEBRE
13 The Travels of a Municipal Theatre Group for People with Learning Disabilities: Attempts at Subverting the Axes of Injustice
VIBEKE GLORSTAD
14 Optimistic Becomings: Learning Disability Performance Outward Bound
MARGARET AMES
Index
About the author
Christiane Czymoch works in the field of media accessibility and is a researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Kate Maguire-Rosier is a postdoctoral research associate of the “Care Aesthetics Research Exploration” project in the Drama department at the University of Manchester.
Yvonne Schmidt is a professor and principal investigator of the research projects “Aesthestics of the Im/Mobile” and “EcoArtLab” at the Bern Academy of the Arts.
Summary
This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.
