Abstract
This chapter takes the form of a staged conversation between Conibere and dance-artist Catherine Long. The voices of Conibere and Long are attributed to pseudonyms in an act of extending their discussion about the politics of visibility and disabled experience: one of the authors would be considered disabled and the other non-disabled, but because the reader does not know which words belong to which unseen body, the potentials of those words is extended. Conibere and Long propose that choreographic practices have the potential to host the capacities for disabled bodies to be generative in means other than educational or as political symbol, but that this is rarely drawn on. They suggest that the prominence of modes of performance and performance programming drawing on existing models of integration serve to fulfil political narratives of inclusivity – a gesture that can compound disabled bodies as signifying incapacity. They discuss works and propose models through which the generative potentials of disabled dancing bodies might offer different experiences of visibility.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Dance Disability and Law |
Subtitle of host publication | InVisible Difference |
Editors | Sarah Whatley, Charlotte Waelde, Shawn Harmon, Abbe Brown, Karen Wood, Hetty Blades |
Place of Publication | Bristol and Chicago |
Publisher | Intellect |
Pages | 380-414 |
Number of pages | 34 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-78320-870-8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-78320-868-5 |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2018 |
Keywords
- Choreography
- Dance
- Disability