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Kuppers, Petra (Bryant College, Rhode Island, Usa) - Disability and Contemporary Performance - 9780415302395 - V9780415302395
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Disability and Contemporary Performance

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Description for Disability and Contemporary Performance Paperback. Exploring some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies, Petra Kuppers investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with stereotypes through their work. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AS; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 174 x 12. Weight in Grams: 378.

Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics.
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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415302395
SKU
V9780415302395
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Kuppers, Petra (Bryant College, Rhode Island, Usa)
Petra Kuppers is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Bryant College. She is Artistic Director of the Olimpias Performance Research Project and she has written extensively in the fields of cultural, performance and disability studies.

Reviews for Disability and Contemporary Performance
"'Timely and much needed. As a dancer, choreographer, community workshop artist, and top-notch scholar, Kuppers is uniquely qualified to address the myriad issues that arise when putting disability studies and performance studies into dialogue with one another.' - Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University"

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