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Disabled Theater

By Christoph Nöthlings

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Disabled Theater

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Jérôme Bel's Disabled Theater, a dance piece featuring eleven actors with cognitive disabilities from Zurich's Theater HORA, has polarized audiences worldwide. Some have celebrated the performance as an outstanding exploration of presence and representation; others have criticized it as a contemporary freak show. This impassioned reception provokes important questions about the role of people with cognitive disabilities within theater and dance-and within society writ large. Using Disabled Theater as the basis for a broad, interdisciplinary discussion of performance and disability, this volume explores the intersections of politics and aesthetics, inclusion and exclusion, and identity and empowerment. Can the stage serve as a place of emancipation for people with disabilities? To what extent are performers with disabilities able to challenge and subvert the rules of society? What would a performance look like without an ideology of ability?
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2015-04-22
Publication Date:
2015-04-22
Publisher:
Diaphanes Verlag
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3037345241
ISBN13:
9783037345245
Weight:
338 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
215 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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