Petra Kuppers

Disability and Contemporary Performance

Bodies on the Edge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780415302395
• ISBN-10: 0415302390
• Artikelnr.: 21256580

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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