Disabled Theater

Herausgegeben:Wihstutz, Benjamin;Übersetzung:Nöthlings, Christoph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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?

Produktdetails

• hors série
• Verlag: University of Chicago Press / diaphanes
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 135mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9783037345245
• ISBN-10: 3037345241
• Artikelnr.: 41651874

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Wihstutz ist Juniorprofessor für Theaterwissenschaft an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen auf Politik und Ästhetik im Gegenwartstheater, Performance und Disability sowie der Geschichte des Publikums

Sandra Umathum ist Professorin für Theaterwissenschaft und Dramaturgie an der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst »Ernst Busch« Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

7 - 10 Prologue (Sandra Umathum, Benjamin Wihstutz)13 - 30 What Difference Does It Make? Or: From Difference to In-Difference (Gerald Siegmund)35 - 50 »... And I Am an Actor« (Benjamin Wihstutz)55 - 56 The Difference between Death and Disability (Yvonne Rainer)61 - 80 Come Together (Scott Wallin)85 - 94 On Action and Spinning99 - 112 Actors, nontheless (Sandra Umathum)117 - 138 The Incapacitated Spectator (Kai van Eikels)141 - 160 »Yes, Now, It's Good Theater« (André Lepecki)163 - 174 »It's All about Communication« (Jérôme Bel, Sandra Umathum, Benjamin Wihstutz)179 - 198 Christoph Schlingensief's »Freakstars 3000« (Kati Kroß)201 - 224 Disabling / Enabling Photography (Lars Nowak)227 - 240 After Disabled Theater (Yvonne Schmidt)241 - 242 Figures243 - 246 Contributors

Rezensionen

"[Disabled Theater] provides a key to understanding the work of an artist whose influence has been crucial to the development of the so-called performance art renaissance within the contemporary scene. It also explores the possibilities for social emancipation from aesthetic judgment on stage."-Flash Art