Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship

Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship
Title Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship PDF eBook
Author B. Hadley
Publisher Springer
Pages 186
Release 2014-03-18
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1137396083

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In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.

Weathering Shakespeare

Weathering Shakespeare
Title Weathering Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Evelyn O'Malley
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 240
Release 2020-12-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1350078077

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From The Pastoral Players' 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare's plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.

Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship

Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship
Title Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship PDF eBook
Author B. Hadley
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 219
Release 2014-01-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9781349484492

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In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.

How Does Disability Performance Travel?

How Does Disability Performance Travel?
Title How Does Disability Performance Travel? PDF eBook
Author Christiane Czymoch
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 301
Release 2023-12-12
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1003821014

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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.

Dance, Disability and Law

Dance, Disability and Law
Title Dance, Disability and Law PDF eBook
Author Sarah Whatley
Publisher Intellect Books
Pages 408
Release 2018-07-15
Genre Drama
ISBN 1783208694

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This collection is the first book to focus on the intersection of dance, disability, and the law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, it considers the question of how we value, validate, and speak about diversity in performance practice, with a specific focus on the experience of differently-abled dance artists within the changing world of the arts in the United Kingdom. Contributors address the legal frameworks that support or inhibit the work of disabled dancers and explore factors that affect their full participation, including those related to policy, arts funding, dance criticism, and audience reception.

Incapacity and Theatricality

Incapacity and Theatricality
Title Incapacity and Theatricality PDF eBook
Author Tony McCaffrey
Publisher Routledge
Pages 315
Release 2019-01-15
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1351165186

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Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatrical performance made by actors with intellectual disabilities. It presents a close examination of certain key theatrical performances across a variety of different media, including John Cassavetes’ 1963 social issues film A Child Is Waiting; the performance art collaboration between Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles; and the provocative pranksterism of Christoph Schlingensief’s talent show mockumentary FreakStars 3000. Tracing a global path of performances, Incapacity and Theatricality offers an analysis of how actors with intellectual disabilities have emerged onto the main stage, and how their inclusion calls into question long-held assumptions about both theatre and intellectual disability. For postgraduate students, or anyone interested in the shifting dynamics of twenty-first century theatre, McCaffrey’s work offers a vital consideration of the intersubjective relations between people with and without intellectual disabilities and ultimately addresses urgent questions about the situation and representation of the contemporary subject caught up somewhere between incapacity and theatricality.

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media
Title The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media PDF eBook
Author Bree Hadley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 834
Release 2018-12-07
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1351254669

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In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies – including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law – and disability arts, culture, and media studies has developed. The two fields have worked in tandem to offer critique of representations of disability in dominant cultural systems, institutions, discourses, and architecture, and develop provocative new representations of what it means to be disabled. Divided into 5 sections: Disability, Identity, and Representation Inclusion, Wellbeing, and Whole-of-life Experience Access, Artistry, and Audiences Practices, Politics and the Public Sphere Activism, Adaptation, and Alternative Futures this handbook brings disability arts, disability culture, and disability media studies – traditionally treated separately in publications in the field to date – together for the first time. It provides scholars, graduate students, upper level undergraduate students, and others interested in the disability rights agenda with a broad-based, practical and accessible introduction to key debates in the field of disability art, culture, and media studies. An internationally recognised selection of authors from around the world come together to articulate the theories, issues, interests, and practices that have come to define the field. Most critically, this book includes commentaries that forecast the pressing present and future concerns for the field as scholars, advocates, activists, and artists work to make a more inclusive society a reality.