Performing Femininity: Frames, Agency and Disability Politics

Produced by The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i and The School of Social Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies

Fungi Moves, Night Crawler, Tree Futures

Three Gothic Eco-Poems by Petra Kuppers

Introduction Changing Images of Disability: Looking Anew at Disability Images in the Mainstream

Produced by The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i and The School of Social Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas for The Society for Disability Studies

Anarcha

Anarcha is a multidisciplinary, multi-authored performance project. Its intent was to explore the intersection of trauma, African American history and disability studies through embodiment. The basic structure of the work was developed by the principal collaborators, but new writing, song and visual materials were added at each performance site. The collaborators used writings from public workshops to augment and enhance the basic script material. The zip files contain materials related to Anarcha, such as variations of the script, images, syllabi, programs, notes, letters, and other files. The zip files are organized by versions of the performance delivered at various locations, including Montgomery, Alabama, Davidson College, University of California - Berkeley, University of Michigan, and New Bern, North Carolina.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/1/Audio.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/3/Lisa_Steichmann_Photos.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/4/Montgomery_Alabama_May_16_2006.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/5/Davidson_February_26_2007.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/6/Berkeley_March_11_to_15_2007.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/7/University_of_Michigan_April_4_2007.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/8/New_Bern_NC_Residency_July_7_2007.ziphttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154039/10/File_manifest_Anarcha.pdfDescription of Audio.zip : Audio clipsDescription of Lisa_Steichmann_Photos.zip : Photographs by Lisa SteichmannDescription of Montgomery_Alabama_May_16_2006.zip : May 2006 Montgomery, AlabamaDescription of Davidson_February_26_2007.zip : February 2007 DavidsonDescription of Berkeley_March_11_to_15_2007.zip : March 2007 BerkeleyDescription of University_of_Michigan_April_4_2007.zip : April 2007 University of MichiganDescription of New_Bern_NC_Residency_July_7_2007.zip : July 2007 New Bern, NCDescription of File_manifest_Anarcha.pdf : zip files contents lis

Educação Acessível : estéticas, corpos e deficiência

Este artigo introduz o modelo social da deficiência aos professores de dança e discute as implicações dessa concepção sobre a deficiência para o ensino de dança, a apreciação da dança e da coreografia. A relação entre o dançarino de balé deficiente e o conceito do corpo dançante do balé é analisado como uma maneira de desafiar o entendimento sobre o corpo em estudantes de dança. O uso de estruturas e técnicas da dança-teatro são discutidas por meio do trabalho de performance de grupos de dança profissionais e comunitários de pessoas com e sem deficiência. A tese central deste artigo é que uma cultura de dança acessível não precisa somente de técnicas, espaços de trabalho, instalações de treinamento e palcos acessíveis, mas também de um trabalho educacional mais amplo no que se refere ao entendimento sobre a dança: a nossa capacidade de ler dança e apreciar a manipulação de corpos, no tempo e no espaço.This paper introduces dance teachers to the social model of disability, and discusses the implications of this conception of disability for the teaching of dance literacy, dance appreciation, and choreography. The relationship between the disabled ballet dancer and the concept of ballet’s dancerly body is analysed as a way to challenge dance students’ understanding of the body. The use of frames and other techniques of dancetheatre are discussed through the performance work of professional and community dance groups with and by disabled people. The core thesis of this paper is that an accessible dance culture needs not only accessible techniques, work spaces, training facilities and stages, but also wider educational work on the level of dance literacy; our ability to read dance and appreciate its manipulation of bodies, spaces and time

Workshopping the revolution? On the phenomenon of joker training in the Theatre of the Oppressed

The article brings together observations and insights on the emerging phenomenon of training the trainers, also known as joker training in the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). The concerns raised in this article are twofold: first, how does the modularised, workshop format of joker training affect the core principles of TO? Second, what are the implications of professionalising the work of the joker? These questions relate to the critique of ‘creative industries’ and debates around precarisation that profoundly impact arts and humanities education in contemporary Europe. They also serve as a call to interrogate concepts central to TO, such as participation, empowerment and community, in terms of how these concepts are appropriated and made docile in the increasingly neoliberal environment of European cultural and educational policies. The article proposes that a training in TO must view the dissemination of techniques and methods of joker practice as inseparable from a deep commitment to a ‘conscientised’ understanding of the complex social problems that the theatre seeks to address. The focus on a technical training alone bears the danger of reinforcing Freire's ‘banking method’ of pedagogy, which is counterproductive to the political objectives of TO. The article observes that professional jokers work in precarious conditions far removed from the promises of the economic rewards of creative enterprise. The proliferation of project-based freelance work creates a situation where jokers tend to become de-territorialised and alienated from actual problems, thus propagating biographic and short-term approaches to systemic contradictions. The study aims to problematise these issues and contribute to a debate that might lead to politically and professionally viable paths for the future of TO