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Disabled Theater
hors série
ISBN/EAN: 9783037345245
Umbreit-Nr.: 7414463
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 248 S., 30 s/w Fotos, 30 Illustr.
Format in cm: 2.1 x 21 x 13.5
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 22.04.2015
- Zusatztext
- 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?
- Autorenportrait
- Benjamin Wihstutz ist Theaterwissenschaftler an der Freien Universität Berlin. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen auf Politik und Ästhetik im Gegenwartstheater sowie im deutschsprachigen Theater um 1800.