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The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and a phenomenon.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors Bio
Introduction
Part I: Crip Time in Pandemic Time
Chapter 1. Our Bodies Are the Archive: Crip Time in Pandemic Time and the Materiality of Disability Performance
Carrie Sandahl
Chapter 2. Disability Culture in a Time of Pandemic
Jess Thom
Chapter 3. On imperfect flow: dis/ability performance in times of pandemic
Benjamin Wihstutz
Chapter 4. Crip Time
Petra Kuppers
Part II: Dramaturgies of Crip Time
Chapter 5. Dance, Disability and Keeping ‘In Time’ on Strictly
Sarah Whatley
Chapter 6. Off-beat bodies. Crip Choreography’s Temporal Politicality
Michael Turinsky
Chapter 7. Imposed Tactlessness. Cursory Considerations on the Beyond of Normative Time
Sandra Umathum
Chapter 8. Kairos Reconfigured: The Rhetoric of Actors with Intellectual Disabilities Stepping In and Out of Theatrical Time
Tony McCaffrey
Chapter 9. On the temporality of stuttering
Elena Backhausen
Chapter 10. Time-Bound Yet Time-Less: Performing Crip Time at Blind Opera and Anyadesh
Rajdeep Konar
Chapter 11. I Fall To Pieces
Kaite O'Reilly
Part III: Crip Time and Futurity
Chapter 12. Future Clinic for Critical Care: MOTHER - Exploring crip maternal time in the theatre
Nina Mühlemann
Chapter 13. As Stiff Grew Stiffer: Theoretical and Practical Applications of Theatrical Crip Time and Four-Dimensional Dramaturgy
John Michael Sefel and Rachael Herren
Chapter 14. Crip Time and the Creative Process – Choreography and Performance as Sites for Exploring ‘Normative’ and ‘Crip’ Time and the Disabled Dance-maker
Kate Marsh
Chapter 15. The Potential and Poetics of Rest
Raquel Meseguer Zafe
Index
About the author
Elena Backhausen is a research assistant at the Institute of Film, Theatre, Media, and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
Benjamin Wihstutz is an Assistant Professor (Junorprofessor) of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. He is principal investigator within the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1482) "Humandifferenzierung" with a project on disability performance history, funded by the German Research Association.
Noa Winter is a curator and dramaturg with a focus on disability arts and anti-ableism, based in Berlin, Germany.
Summary
The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and a phenomenon.
