University of Michigan Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-472-09891-0 | eISBN: 978-0-472-02172-7 | Paper: 978-0-472-06891-3 Library of Congress Classification PN1590.H36B63 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.087
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
"A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn."
-Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as "bodies in commotion"-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book's essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.
REVIEWS
Winner: 2006 Best Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
— The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Book Award
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction: Disability Studies in Commotion with Performance Studies
Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander
Part I: Taxonomies: Disability and Deaf Performances in the Process of Self-Definition
Delivering Disability, Willing Speech
Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Dares to Stares: Disabled Women Performance Artists and the Dynamics of Staring
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Performing Deaf Identity: Toward a Continuum of Deaf Performance
Jessica Berson
Aesthetic Distance and the Fiction of Disability
Jim Ferris
Part II: Disability/Deaf Aesthetics, Audiences, and the Public Sphere
Shifting Apollo's Frame: Challenging the Body Aesthetic in Theater Dance
Owen Smith
The National Theatre of the Deaf: Artistic Freedom and Cultural Responsibility in the Use of
American Sign Language
Shannon Bradford
Shifting Strengths: The Cyborg Theater of Cathy Weis
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Theater without a Hero: The Making of P.H.*reaks: The Hidden History of People with
Disabilities
Victoria Ann Lewis
Part III: Rehabilitating the Medical Model
Performing Disability, Problematizing Cure
Johnson Cheu
Bodies, Hysteria, Pain: Staging the Invisible
Petra Kuppers
Performance as Therapy: Spalding Gray's Autopathographic Monologues
Philip Auslander
The Facilitation of Learning-Disabled Arts: A Cultural Perspective
Giles Perring
Beyond Therapy: "Performance" Work with People Who Have Profound and Multiple
Disabilities
Melissa C. Nash
Dementia and the Performance of Self
Anne Davis Basting
Part IV: Performing Disability in Daily Life
Looking Blind: A Revelation of Culture's Eye
Tanya Titchkosky
Men in Motion: Disability and the Performance of Masculinity
Lenore Manderson and Susan Peake
Disrupting a Disembodied Status Quo: Invisible Theater as Subversive Pedagogy
Maureen Connolly and Tom Craig
The Tyranny of Neutral: Disability and Actor Training
Carrie Sandahl
Part V: Reading Disability in Dramatic Literature
Unfixing Disability in Lord Byron's The Deformed Transformed
Sharon L. Snyder
On Medea, Bad Mother of the Greek Drama (Disability, Character, Genopolitics)
Marcy J. Epstein
Disability's Invisibility in Joan Schenkar's Signs of Life and Heather McDonald's An Almost Holy
Picture
Stacy Wolf
Reconsidering Identity Politics, Essentialism, and Dismodernism: An Afterword
Peggy Phelan
Contributors
Index \to come\
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University of Michigan Press, 2005 Cloth: 978-0-472-09891-0 eISBN: 978-0-472-02172-7 Paper: 978-0-472-06891-3
"A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn."
-Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as "bodies in commotion"-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book's essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.
REVIEWS
Winner: 2006 Best Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
— The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Book Award
TABLE OF CONTENTS
\rrhp\
\lrrh: Contents\
\1h\ Contents \xt\
\comp: add page numbers on page proofs\
Introduction: Disability Studies in Commotion with Performance Studies
Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander
Part I: Taxonomies: Disability and Deaf Performances in the Process of Self-Definition
Delivering Disability, Willing Speech
Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Dares to Stares: Disabled Women Performance Artists and the Dynamics of Staring
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Performing Deaf Identity: Toward a Continuum of Deaf Performance
Jessica Berson
Aesthetic Distance and the Fiction of Disability
Jim Ferris
Part II: Disability/Deaf Aesthetics, Audiences, and the Public Sphere
Shifting Apollo's Frame: Challenging the Body Aesthetic in Theater Dance
Owen Smith
The National Theatre of the Deaf: Artistic Freedom and Cultural Responsibility in the Use of
American Sign Language
Shannon Bradford
Shifting Strengths: The Cyborg Theater of Cathy Weis
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Theater without a Hero: The Making of P.H.*reaks: The Hidden History of People with
Disabilities
Victoria Ann Lewis
Part III: Rehabilitating the Medical Model
Performing Disability, Problematizing Cure
Johnson Cheu
Bodies, Hysteria, Pain: Staging the Invisible
Petra Kuppers
Performance as Therapy: Spalding Gray's Autopathographic Monologues
Philip Auslander
The Facilitation of Learning-Disabled Arts: A Cultural Perspective
Giles Perring
Beyond Therapy: "Performance" Work with People Who Have Profound and Multiple
Disabilities
Melissa C. Nash
Dementia and the Performance of Self
Anne Davis Basting
Part IV: Performing Disability in Daily Life
Looking Blind: A Revelation of Culture's Eye
Tanya Titchkosky
Men in Motion: Disability and the Performance of Masculinity
Lenore Manderson and Susan Peake
Disrupting a Disembodied Status Quo: Invisible Theater as Subversive Pedagogy
Maureen Connolly and Tom Craig
The Tyranny of Neutral: Disability and Actor Training
Carrie Sandahl
Part V: Reading Disability in Dramatic Literature
Unfixing Disability in Lord Byron's The Deformed Transformed
Sharon L. Snyder
On Medea, Bad Mother of the Greek Drama (Disability, Character, Genopolitics)
Marcy J. Epstein
Disability's Invisibility in Joan Schenkar's Signs of Life and Heather McDonald's An Almost Holy
Picture
Stacy Wolf
Reconsidering Identity Politics, Essentialism, and Dismodernism: An Afterword
Peggy Phelan
Contributors
Index \to come\
\eof\
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