TY  - BOOK
AU  - Umathum,Sandra
AU  - Wihstutz,Benjamin
TI  - Disabled theater /edited by Sandra Umathum and Benjamin Wihstutz
SN  - 9783037345818
AV  - PN1590 .D573 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Zürich
PB  - Diaphanes
KW  - Bel, Jérôme --
KW  - People with disabilities and the performing arts
KW  - Actors with disabilities
KW  - Theater
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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