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On Action and Spinning
On Action and Spinning
(p. 85 – 94)

On Action and Spinning
Interview with the Actors of Theater HORA

PDF, 10 pages

Interviews with the actors from Theater HORA Remo Beuggert, Damian Bright, Matthias Brücker, Matthias Grandjean, Julia Häusermann, Sara Hess, and Miranda Hossle on the piece Disabled Theater.

  • aesthetics
  • theatre studies
  • performing arts
  • theatre / drama
  • body
  • performance
  • identity
  • disability studies
  • Jérôme Bel

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Sandra Umathum (ed.), Benjamin Wihstutz (ed.): Disabled Theater

Sandra Umathum (ed.), Benjamin Wihstutz (ed.)

Disabled Theater

Translated by Christoph Nöthlings

Softcover, 248 pages

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PDF, 248 pages

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?