Disability Culture and Community Perform: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape

Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.

Author: P. Kuppers
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/12/2011
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230298279

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2012

About the Author
Petra Kuppers is Artistic Director of The Olimpias, and she teaches in Performance Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. Her previous books include Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (2007), Community Performance: An Introduction (2007).