How Does Disability Performance Travel?

This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.

Christiane Czymoch works in the field of media accessibility and is a researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Kate Maguire-Rosier is a postdoctoral research associate of the "Care Aesthetics Research Exploration" project in the Drama department at the University of Manchester. Yvonne Schmidt is a professor and principal investigator of the research projects "Aesthestics of the Im/Mobile" and "EcoArtLab" at the Bern Academy of the Arts.

Contributor Biographies Neil Marcus: Storm Reading Tour INTRODUCED BY PETRA KUPPERS AND RAQUEL ESCOBAR Introduction: How Does Disability Performance Travel? CHRISTIANE CZYMOCH, KATE MAGUIRE-ROSIER, AND YVONNE SCHMIDT PART 1 The Politics of Touring and Travelling 1 Putting Myself into People's Spaces: A Performer's Journey Through World Stages NADIA ADAME 2 The Journey of Maui and Different Light: Fellow Travelling and Learning-Disabled Theatre TONY McCAFFREY 3 Travel Poetics FELIPE HENRIQUE MONTEIRO OLIVEIRA TRANSLATED BY MARIA CAROLINA MONTEIRO OLIVEIRA 4 How Disability Performance Travels in Australia: The Reality Under the Rhetoric BREE HADLEY WITH EDDIE PATERSON, MADELEINE LITTLE, AND KATH DUNCAN PART 2 International Flows and Cultural Settings 5 The Travels of The ApartmentALEKSANDRA DUNAEVA TRANSLATED BY YULIA SAVIKOVSKAYA 6 Teatro Patologico Abroad: A Medea for International Audiences JOSEPH PAUL HILL 7 How Disability Performances Travel within Taiwan: Sustaining Confrontations and Letting Differences Coexist in I am a Normal Person No.1 and No.2 I-LIEN HO PART 3 Embodying Spaces, Mobilizing Environments 8 Unsettling Sitting Modes of Living: The Disability of Sitting as Creative Environmental Mobility CIANE FERNANDES ENGLISH REVISION BY MELINA SCIALOM 9 Travel, Mobility, and Kinetic Hierarchies in Disability Performance MEGAN JOHNSON 10 Building Communities Online: #DisabilityTwitter and Digital Mobility JESSICA WATKIN 11 The Animacy of Ekphrasis: Documenting Performance as Acts of Unfurling Reciprocity BRONWYN PREECE PART 4 Local, Site-Specific Work, Microcosms, and the Periphery 12 HAPPY ISLAND and the Islands within the Island HENRIQUE AMOEDO, DIOGO GONCALVES, ELISABETE MONTEIRO, AND PAULA LEBRE 13 The Travels of a Municipal Theatre Group for People with Learning Disabilities: Attempts at Subverting the Axes of Injustice VIBEKE GLORSTAD 14 Optimistic Becomings: Learning Disability Performance Outward Bound MARGARET AMES Index