Telory Davies Arendell

The Autistic Stage (eBook, PDF)

How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a book for those who have a stake in and curiosity about the relationship between autism and the stage. Performance here covers theatre to therapy, film to biography, art and beyond. If you are a theater or film critic, a speech or drama therapist, a higher education specialist or special education instructor, a parent of a child on the autism spectrum or an individual with ASD interested in theatre, this book may hold unique value for you. This work is meant to cover a range of issues and reach out to audiences, critics, professionals and parents who want to know more about performance representations of autism. One message reverberates throughout the book: each autistic person illustrates different approaches to and perspectives on life. We become richer each time we come to understand these new perspectives and performance powerfully enhances our understanding of them. Autism Spectrum Disorders include alternative modes of processing information, recording images, discoursing with others, and interpreting social scenes. In this conversation, performance can function as an analytical lens, a representational space, a means of perceptual innovation, and a therapeutic tool. The definition of autism as a disorder has evolved from its first diagnosis in the 1940s to our current frame of reference with several key revisions. These three categories—interaction, communication, and perseveration—underlie any published study of those on the autism spectrum. What has shifted in recent years is an approach to disability that positions autism as a social construction rather than a medical problem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sense Publishers / SensePublishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789463001816
• Artikelnr.: 44103919

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Thinking Spatially, Speaking Visually: Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles; “Autism as an Aesthetic Anchor”; Performance Always Starts with the Body; Wilson’s Intersection with Disability; Wilson and Autism; Spatial Thinking and Language; Translating Disability; Process and Production; Visual Music in Space; Autistic Parallels in Einstein on the Beach; Multiplicity in Wilson’s Opera; Behold, Chekhov Lizardbrain; How Pig Iron Works; Models of the Brain; Dimitri’s Autistic Mind; Temple Grandin’s Theories on Autism; Dimitri/Lizardbrain; Lost and Lonely; Clowning and the Role of Physical Theatre; Repetition; Musicality and Movement; Connecting Wilson, Chaikin, and Pig Iron; SHUT EYE; Pig Iron’s Place in Experimental Theatre; The Wanderer: Staging Autism as a Service-Learning Project; Methodology; Observations at the School; Citizenship and Service-Learning; Background to Theatre for Social Change; Devised Theatre; Different Learning Pathways; The Wanderer Script; Scene 1: The First Doorway; Scene 2: The Dancing Fields; Scene 3: Fortress of Solitude; Scene 4: Silent Wood; Scene 5: Juggling Hollow; Scene 6: Reconciliation; Production Choices; “Performance of Possibilities”; Questions of Representation; The Model of Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre; Giving Voice; Further Developments; Autistic Techne: Thinking in Pictures and Starring in Film; Heidegger’s Notion of Techne; Portrayals of Autistic Behavior; Getting Inside Temple Grandin; A Series of Doors; The Routine of Space; The Squeeze Machine; Learning from Another’s Disability; More Doors of Transition; Redesigning Cattle Chutes; Changing Views of Autism; Autism is a World; Autism: The Musical; Disney dialogues: No Sidekick Left Behind; Rehearsing Social Skills; “Just Your Voice!”; “Beauty Lies Within”; Conversations with Iago; Consummate Method Actor; “Context Blind”; Perseverative Behavior; “I am the Protekter of Sidekicks”; Reinventing Scripts; Searching for the Hero within; Making Room for Improvisation; “Disney Therapy”; The Power of Story in Shaping Our Lives; Animated Films as Mirror; The Lion King; Autism-Friendly Performance on Broadway; “Follow Your Passion: Find Your Place”; Arts Therapy for Autism: Translating a New Theory of Mind; Quest for Meaning; Connection to Language; Theatre Therapy; Capacity for Symbolic Thought; Drawing and Language; Theories of Mind; Visuals Aids as Road Maps; Developing a Toolkit of Skills; Alternate Means of Communication; Augmentative Devices; New Technologies; Autism and Theatre Practice; Autism and Presence; The Role of Performance Skills; Exercises of Healing and Development of Empathy; Breaking Down Scenes into Small Steps; Neuroplasticity: Change through Experience; Other Disorders; Spatial Training; Embodied Pleasure: Autistic Behavior and the Dance of Social Interaction; Faces of Autism; Bibliography.