Disabled theater /edited by Sandra Umathum and Benjamin Wihstutz.
- First edition.
- Zürich : Diaphanes, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Table of Contents; Prologue: Disabling the Theater; What Difference Does It Make? or: From Difference to In-Difference: 'Disabled Theater' in the Context of Jérôme Bel's Work / Gerald Siegmund; ""... And I Am an Actor"": On Emancipation in 'Disabled Theater' / Benjamin Wihstutz; The Difference between Death and Disability / Yvonne Rainer; Come Together: Discomfort and Longing in Jérôme Bel's 'Disabled Theater' / Scott Wallin; On Acting and Spinning: Interviews with the actors of Theater HORA; Actors, nontheless / Sandra Umathum; The Incapacitated Spectator / Kai van Eikels ""Yes, Now, It's Good Theater"" / André Lepecki""It's All about Communication"": Interview with Jérôme Bel; Christoph Schlingensief's Freakstars 3000: ""... Consistently Abused and Forced to Portray Disability!"" / Kati Kroß; Disabling/Enabling Photography: On Freak Photography and Diane Arbus's Portraits / Lars Nowak; After 'Disabled Theater': Authorship, Creative Responsibility, and Autonomy in 'Freie Republik HORA' / Yvonne Schmidt; List of Figures; Contributors
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.
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People with disabilities and the performing arts. Actors with disabilities. Theater. Actors with disabilities. People with disabilities and the performing arts. Theater.