Journal Article10.1162/DRAM_A_00377
Presence, Rhetoric, Difference: Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA's Disabled Theater
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TL;DR: A deceptively straightforward performance work created by French choreographer Jerome Bel in collaboration with the company members of Zurich's Theater HORA, Disabled Theater subtly challenges the normative conventions of theatrical spectatorship and hints at forms of sociality that can flourish beyond the margins of standard or typical cognition as discussed by the authors.
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Abstract: A deceptively straightforward performance work created by French choreographer Jerome Bel in collaboration with the company members of Zurich’s Theater HORA, Disabled Theater subtly challenges the normative conventions of theatrical spectatorship and hints at forms of sociality that can flourish beyond the margins of standard or typical cognition.
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Staring: how we look
TL;DR: Staring: how we look, by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, 244 pp., US$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-195-32680-2 I have always been a starer as discussed by the authors.