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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Umathum, Sandra (Editor ), Wihstutz, Benjamin, 1978- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Zürich : Diaphanes, [2015]
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Bel, Jérôme. > Disabled theater.
People with disabilities and the performing arts.
Actors with disabilities.
Theater.
Personnes handicapées et arts du spectacle.
Acteurs handicapés.
Théâtre.
theater (discipline)
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Actors with disabilities
People with disabilities and the performing arts
Theater
Tanz
Behinderter Mensch
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783037345818
3037345810

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