...Jessica A. Watkin Jessica Watkin works out her definition of Disability Dramaturgy and explains her artistic practice, which is rooted in personal care rather than professional extraction. As a Blind/Disabled artist, Watkin describes her relationship to Blind artist Alex Bulmer. Watkin reflects...

..., as theater makers find ways to evolve from this moment and learn from practices of care, flexibility, and interdependence that have always been a part of disability dramaturgy. 2 up front This issue is crafted in response to this particular moment in our North American cultural understanding of disability...

... forward, embracing the bodymind (overcoming dualistic thinking, which hinders the imagination) along with other concepts from disability studies that might nourish revelatory new dramaturgies. This edition of Theater turns to an idea-r­ich cadre of disabled practitioners and scholars to ask how strategies...

... to reconsider the French playwright, in light of recent scholarship (such as disability studies) and adjacent cultural and historical perspectives (on everything from fashion to music to publishing and film). International scholars and artists arrived on the two sponsoring campuses for the convening in April...

... Zürich, Zurich, 2017. theater-m­ akers, acting and dramatic presentation their dramatic characters, causal Photo: Kevin Graber dramaturgies, and identities developed over the past 2,500 years have failed truth, and not only in their stereotyping. Sometimes they further contribute to evil...

...- Bodhisattua.She recently served as dramaturg for Lee Breuer’s duced by Monstrous Regiment in London, has just been The WarriorAnt at BAM, and is a dramaturgy consultant for a published by Playwrights PresdMethuen. She has recently dance theater piece adapted from Ch’u Yuan’s Nine Songs in complete...

... with emotional or learning disabilities; English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students; the developmentally disabled; homeless kids and incarcerated juvenile delinquents. In addition to general arts-in-education programs, Irondale’s AIDS TEAM is now training young actors to use game and improv...

... in the focus on the experience of disability. He is a School of Theater, Film, and Television at National Endowment for the Arts–Theatre the University of California, Los Angeles. Communications Group playwright in He has directed for the Royal Opera, residence at Trinity Repertory Company...

... in Black theater, as well as in my own work, are worlds that are not solely made up of able-b­ odied people. A person with a disability should not appear in a play as a symbol or metaphor, but they should be there because Black people with different bodies represent the truth of the worlds we live...

...- Photo: bringing their voices into this installation. ence. So I was struggling with those different Oliver Rudkin One the challenges of being a live arts approaches to time, objects, architecture. curator was that the dramaturgy of exhibition was not one that I had worked with before...

..., and amateur worlds - there remains the fact that this country has not found within itself a distinctive sense of its traditions of performance, stagecraft, and dramaturgy. We hear...

...; Schaubühne am the proponent par excellence of minutely observed rather, we must think about the ways in which, Lehniner Platz, 2002. realism. It is easy to forget the other Ibsens: the more than a hundred years on, Ibsen’s body of Photo: Arno Declair ruthless formalist who smashed the dramaturgi...

...Andrea Tompa © 2014 by Andrea Tompa 2014 Pichet Klunchun and myself by Jérôme Bel and Pichet Klunchun Premiered at Bangkok Fringe Festival December 2004: Bangkok Disabled Theater by Jérôme Bel and Theatre hora Premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts May 2012: Brussels...

...; Zagreb, Croatia Productions and Events Andrea Tompa In France We Already Cut the Heads of the Kings Pichet Klunchun and myself by Jérôme Bel and Pichet Klunchun Premiered at Bangkok Fringe Festival December 2004: Bangkok Disabled Theater by Jérôme Bel...

... and myself by Jérôme Bel and Pichet Klunchun Premiered at Bangkok Fringe Festival December 2004: Bangkok Disabled Theater by Jérôme Bel and Theatre hora Premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts May 2012: Brussels The world of French choreographer Jérôme Bel can be viewed as a basic introduction...

... inherited the dramaturgy of the 1930s: mostly they presented problems in domestic drama and often found or suggested answers, after a great deal of personal angst was expressed onstage. The style in which they wrote celebrated the banal in that it simply depicted quotidian behavior as the norm. We were...

... have much consideration for dramaturgy in their shows, and so on. Writing a curatorial text about this performance group and their spectacular show has been one of the easiest and most fun things to do. However, as it sometimes happens in artistic collaborations, the newly discovered artists were...

... art, happenings, and at least one wordless movement-theater piece performed by the deaf. Operetta has been used as a therapeutic music-theater project in a state home for the mentally disabled in France, as recorded in the 1997 French docu- mentary film La moindre des choses (the production’s...

... performances, which always present his own very special group of per- formers — nonprofessionals, disabled people, and people with special abilities as well as film and theater stars? And what about the productions of the performance group Rimini Protokoll, with nonprofessional actors who are, nonetheless...

... death, invited Wilson to stage The Oceanzight, making good on his belief that “on [Wilson’s] stage, Brecht’s epic dramaturgy has a place to dance.” (The sentence appears in a condolence telegram Muller sent to the director after the CIVIL wars was canceled in 1984 The invita- tion makes...