Contributor Biographies

Neil Marcus: Storm Reading Tour
INTRODUCED BY PETRA KUPPERS AND RAQUEL ESCOBAR

Introduction: How Does Disability Performance Travel?
CHRISTIANE CZYMOCH, KATE MAGUIRE-ROSIER, AND YVONNE SCHMIDT

PART 1
The Politics of Touring and Travelling

1 Putting Myself into People’s Spaces: A Performer’s Journey Through World Stages
NADIA ADAME

2 The Journey of Maui and Different Light: Fellow Travelling and Learning-Disabled Theatre
TONY McCAFFREY

3 Travel Poetics
FELIPE HENRIQUE MONTEIRO OLIVEIRA
TRANSLATED BY MARIA CAROLINA MONTEIRO OLIVEIRA

4 How Disability Performance Travels in Australia:
The Reality Under the Rhetoric
BREE HADLEY WITH EDDIE PATERSON, MADELEINE LITTLE, AND KATH DUNCAN

PART 2
International Flows and Cultural Settings

5 The Travels of The ApartmentALEKSANDRA DUNAEVA
TRANSLATED BY YULIA SAVIKOVSKAYA

6 Teatro Patologico Abroad: A Medea for International Audiences
JOSEPH PAUL HILL

7 How Disability Performances Travel within Taiwan:
Sustaining Confrontations and Letting Differences Coexist in I am a Normal Person No.1 and No.2
I-LIEN HO

PART 3
Embodying Spaces, Mobilizing Environments

8 Unsettling Sitting Modes of Living: The Disability of Sitting as Creative Environmental Mobility
CIANE FERNANDES
ENGLISH REVISION BY MELINA SCIALOM

9 Travel, Mobility, and Kinetic Hierarchies in Disability Performance
MEGAN JOHNSON

10 Building Communities Online: #DisabilityTwitter and Digital Mobility
JESSICA WATKIN

11 The Animacy of Ekphrasis: Documenting Performance as Acts of Unfurling Reciprocity
BRONWYN PREECE

PART 4
Local, Site-Specific Work, Microcosms, and the Periphery

12 HAPPY ISLAND and the Islands within the Island
HENRIQUE AMOEDO, DIOGO GONCALVES, ELISABETE MONTEIRO, AND PAULA LEBRE

13 The Travels of a Municipal Theatre Group for People with Learning Disabilities: Attempts at Subverting the Axes of Injustice
VIBEKE GLORSTAD

14 Optimistic Becomings: Learning Disability Performance Outward Bound
MARGARET AMES

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