1st Edition
How Does Disability Performance Travel? Access, Art, and Internationalization
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.
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 Apartment
ALEKSANDRA 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
Biography
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.
