1st Edition
Encountering Disability and Citizenship through Contemporary Dance in Africa
Acknowledgements and Thanks
Integrity statement
Funding Acknowledgement
PART I – Framing disability and citizenship through contemporary dance in Africa
Chapter 1: A conceptual mapping of the terrain: Disability and citizenship
Chapter 2: Arts and integrated dance: The importance of representation and productive risk
PART II: African integrated dancers’ voices and practices
Chapter 3: Ethiopian integrated dance – Tracing the story (Yvette Hutchison with Jessie Brett)
Chapter 4: Joseph Tebandeke (Uganda) – Engaging everyday activisms, notions of community and rethinking the ‘body beautiful’ in dance (Lliane Loots)
Chapter 5: Ondiege Matthew and Dance Into Space (Kenya) – a three-tiered process of training, working and generating performances across literal and metaphysical spaces (Lliane Loots)
Chapter 6: Unmute Dance Company (South Africa) – an intersectional approach to aesthetics, risk and the concept of Deaf gain (Yvette Hutchison)
Chapter 7: Lliane Loots and FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY (South Africa) - evolving dance as a tool to facilitate a ‘living democracy’ (Yvette Hutchison)
PART III: Facilitating encounters between practitioners and diverse publics
Chapter 8: The role of festivals in facilitating encounters with (and through) integrated dance
Chapter 9: The role of networks in facilitating encounters between practitioners working towards a shared intersectional activism
Index
Biography
Yvette Hutchison is Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, University of Warwick, UK.
Lliane Loots is Lecturer in the Drama and Performance Studies Programme (HCC), School of the Arts, College of Humanities – University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
