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Davies, Telory Williamson.

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Performing disability: Representations of disability and illness in contemporary American performance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing disability: Representations of disability and illness in contemporary American performance./
Author:	Davies, Telory Williamson.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1465.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05A.
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3090575

Performing disability: Representations of disability and illness in contemporary American performance.
Davies, Telory Williamson.

Performing disability: Representations of disability and illness in contemporary American performance. - 218 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1465.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2003.

Can disability alter our notion of aesthetics? In effect, can there be a different aesthetics of disability? Scholars of disability in the humanities claim this as a possibility, and argue that it already exists. My contribution to this enterprise is a discussion of four contemporary American artists/companies—Bill T. Jones, the AXIS Dance Company, Cherríe Moraga, and Joseph Chaikin—in which I challenge stereotypical perceptions of disability and illness. The performance material I have selected ranges from wheelchair dance to aphasic direction. With interviews and performance analysis, I explore 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 changes dance and theater: different bodies and abilities map out new possibilities for America's stages. I provide an in-depth look at texts and performances where disability shapes both content and form; my examples are pieces that other scholars have yet to explore in terms of disability. Recent scholarship defines disability as a cultural phenomenon and impairment as a medical one. I don't see these two terms as quite so separate. In fact, they strike me as mutually constitutive. I argue that the actuality of disabled performers in disability dance and theater forces us to rethink the boundaries of human experience and to expand our notions of what is possible on the stage. Changing notions of the body are central to my thesis and contemporary critical theory in general, and disability is my point of entry into this larger conversation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.

Performing disability: Representations of disability and illness in contemporary American performance.
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