Telory Davies

Performing Disability

Staging the Actual

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The actual disabled body in dance and theater closes
representational structures; it is always the most
present presence.
With this as her premise, Telory Davies uses physical
and cognitive
impairment to unsettle naturalized assumptions about
ability.
Changing notions of the body are central to her work
and
contemporary critical theory in general; disability
is her point of
entry into this larger conversation. She proposes actualism as
contemporary disability performance s strongest
means of
transforming U.S. dance and theater. This new
practice makes the
accommodation of difference more tangible and
encourages
audience members to look with alternative viewing
strategies; in
effect, to look differently at difference. Through
interviews and
performance analysis, Davies explores the artists
goals and the
performers experiences in order to demonstrate how
disability
performance challenges non-disabled space,
interpersonal relations,
and definitions of ability. Disability scholars and
activists,
Performance Studies instructors, and anyone
interested in identity
politics will benefit from this book s combination of
theory, history,
and thick description.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 241g
• ISBN-13: 9783639122916
• ISBN-10: 3639122917
• Artikelnr.: 26032821

Autorenporträt

Telory Davies is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Theatre and Dance at
Missouri State University, Springfield. She holds a PhD in
Dramatic Theory and
Criticism from Stanford University and an MA in Performance
Studies from New
York University. Davies has published journal articles on the
intersection of
disability and performance.