Disability culture and community performance: find a strange and twisted shape

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 presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement withdisability culture. PETRA KUPPERS is Artistic Director of The Olimpias, and she teaches in Performance Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. Her previous books include 'Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge' (Routledge, 2003),'The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art' (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 'Community Performance: An Introduction' (Routledge, 2007). INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART I: MAKING A HOME - Landscaping: Spacings - Dancing Stories about Home: A Community Dance Residency in a Hospice in New Zealand - Community Arts and Practices: Improvising Being-Together - PART II: RHIZOMES/CONNECTIONS - Toward a Rhizomatic Model of Disability: Poetry, Performance, and Touch - Burning Butoh: Self/Community - Rhizome: Choreography of a Moving Self - Rhizome: Collaboration - Rhizome: Beyond Story, Community Performance and Somatic Poetics - PART III: MEMORY TOUCH - Introduction: Desirous History - Performing Anarcha - RememberingAnarcha - The Anarcha Project Performative Lecture - The Anarcha Project: A Process Report - PART IV: SENSUAL HISTORY AND MYTH-MAKING - Introduction - Tiresian Journeys - Teaching Disability Culture: Reflections on Tiresias in the Classroom - Epilogue - Bibliography - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29827-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés