...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...

...Patty Berne; Nomy Lamm Patty Berne (executive director/artistic director) and Nomy Lamm (creative director) discuss the work of their performance collective and disability justice advocacy group, Sins Invalid. They address their company’s attempts to implement the principles of disability justice...

... essential feature of the theatrical event. But bodies and their many differences have also gone astonishingly unexamined in many crucial respects not least because the American theater has often excluded, ignored, marginalized, or outright exploited disabled artists. The theater would do well to look...

... artists whose work troubles the traditional definition of theater. Disabled artists have always pushed against those narrow divides: artists have created choreography from their beds and operatic compositions from assistive communication devices. That has never been more the case than during these past...

... of, by, and for disabled artists. Piepzna- Samarasinha s message of art as survival is a revelatory assertion of the power of poetry in the struggle for disability justice. For the disabled community particularly the black, brown, Asian, and lgbtq disabled community art is not supplemental: it is a crucial tool...

... make us regular dancers that is, unfindable. Beyond that, I have learned to be more suspicious of giving too much value to archival ways of enumerating ownership and choreographic agency. As a disabled community dance artist and critic, I know there is a flow of creative energy around disabled...

... curation as care disabled identities; we watched with delight as artists like Jina Kim and Sami Schalk shared fabulous lewks as a part of framing the presentation of Schalk s video on pleasure activism. The artists of Indisposable also extended this principle of collaboration as care beyond the borders...

...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...

... and Ideas — of which danse: An Anthology forms but one part — was produced not by inde- pendent art centers, festivals, or curators but, rather, by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York. After all, the artists with whom danse is concerned, a generation of choreographers who rose...

... Bernaza, Jaime Cruz, Lucas Demarchi, Manuel García, Diana Gutiérrez, Cristina León Barandiarán, Ximena Rodríguez, and Álvaro Toledo. In the artistic team, Jonathan Oliveros offered his years of experiencing directing actors with disabilities; Claudia Tangoa and Luis Alberto León were essential in the team...

... dissembled disability onstage as a means for their characters to achieve their own ends (such as Hamlet s feigned madness), or faked disability to serve as a warning against con artists, as Lindsay Row-­Heyveld has studied.18 Who should be responsible for charity toward disabled people? Is the nation-s­ tate...

... interested in educating kids: it’s too scary a proposition. True education might give them enough power to actually change the status quo.” Greiss, along with Artistic Director Jim Niesen and the Irondale company, mean to overthrow the system - gently. With the enthusiastic endorsement...

... remembering joseph chaikin John Belluso During JoAnne Akalaitis’s tenure as artistic director of the Public Theater, she invited Joe into residence for the purpose of creating a new project on the topic of his choice. He decided he wanted to examine the experience of disability in society. He worked...

... by a man without a disability, she must take great pains to justify her decision. Witness her explanation of her liking for video artist Douglas Gordon’s 10 ms-1 (“medical foot- age of a man, relatively young, white, visually in good health, who gets off a bed “I am retelling the story of seeing 10 ms...

... by a man without a disability, she must take great pains to justify her decision. Witness her explanation of her liking for video artist Douglas Gordon’s 10 ms-1 (“medical foot- age of a man, relatively young, white, visually in good health, who gets off a bed “I am retelling the story of seeing 10 ms...

... by a man without a disability, she must take great pains to justify her decision. Witness her explanation of her liking for video artist Douglas Gordon’s 10 ms-1 (“medical foot- age of a man, relatively young, white, visually in good health, who gets off a bed “I am retelling the story of seeing 10 ms...

... 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...

... disruptions could halt business as usual, stopping the mechanisms of a morally corrupt, even lethal enterprise from turning forward. Savio s words come to mind again and again in this troubled era as artists ™nd themselves as critical agitators in the current movements for social, economic, and politi- cal...