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Statement of Responsibility: Ed. by Sandra Umathum and Benjamin Wihstutz
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2015
Publisher: Zürich, diaphanes
Media group: Buch
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Statement of Responsibility: Ed. by Sandra Umathum and Benjamin Wihstutz
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2015
Publisher: Zürich, diaphanes
Works included: What difference does it make? - Disabled Theater in the context of Jéromes Bel's work / by Gerald Siegmund , The difference between death and disability / by Yvonne Rainer , Yes, now, It's good theater / by André Lepecki
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ISBN: 978-3-03734-524-5
ISBN (2nd): 3-03734-524-1
Description: 245 S. : Ill.
Tags: Behinderung; Actors with disabilities; Performance; Bel, Jérôme; Body; Theatergruppen; Theatre Studies; Performing Arts; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics ; bisacsh; Identity; Tanztheater; People with disabilities and the performing arts; Disabilities
Participating parties: Search for this character Umathum, Sandra; Wihstutz, Benjamin
Language: Englisch
Footnote: Summary: 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?
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