Petra Kuppers, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the biggest issues in performance today.
Petra Kuppers, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the biggest issues in performance today.
Petra Kuppers is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Bryant College. She is Artistic Director of the Olimpias Performance Research Project and she has written extensively in the fields of cultural, performance and disability studies.
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List of figures Acknowledgements Figure acknowledgements Performance and disability: An introduction 1. Practices of reading difference 2. Freaks stages and medical theaters 3. Deconstructing images: Performing disability 4. Outsider energies 5. Encountering paralysis: Disability trauma and narrative 6. New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness silence and space in mental health settings Notes Bibliography Index
List of figures Acknowledgements Figure acknowledgements Performance and disability: An introduction 1. Practices of reading difference 2. Freaks stages and medical theaters 3. Deconstructing images: Performing disability 4. Outsider energies 5. Encountering paralysis: Disability trauma and narrative 6. New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness silence and space in mental health settings Notes Bibliography Index
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