Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

1. Introduction Bruce Henderson and Noam Ostrander 2. Prologue: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Crip Poetry Jim Ferris RESEARCH REPORTS 3. Performing Amputation: The Photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin Ann Millett 4. Mobility: AXIS Dancers Push the Boundaries of Access Telory Davies 5. Dances and Discourses of (Dis)Ability: Heather Mills’s Embodiment of Disability on Dancing with the Stars Margaret M. Quinlan and Benjamin R. Bates 6. A Crippling Deceit: Mendicancy and the Performance of Disability in Progressive America Sheila C. Moeschen 7. ‘‘I Can’t Be Standing Up Out There’’: Communicative Performances of (Dis)Ability in Wheelchair Rugby Kurt Lindemann 8. Performing Unfeminine Femininity: A Performance of Identity Analysis of Bulimic Women’s Personal Narratives JulieAnn Scott 9. Remaking (the) Discipline: Marking the Performative Accomplishment of (Dis)Ability Deanna L. Fassett and Dana L. Morella THE PERFORMANCE SPACE 10. BALL: Introduction Brian Lobel 11. BALL: The Script Brian Lobel 12. How to Tell a True Cancer Story Linda M. Park-Fuller 13. Performing Trauma: Witnessing BALL and the Implications for Autoperformance John T. Warren 14. The Hero Quest and the Hula Hoop: Brian Lobel’s BALL Cara Gabriel 15. Dancing Autism: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and Bedlam Petra Kuppers 16. Performing Depression: The Workman Theatre Project and the Making of Joy. A Musical. About Depression Kirsty Johnston 17. Why Disability Identity Matters: From Dramaturgy to Casting in John Belluso’s Pyretown Carrie Sandahl 18. Just Try Having None Jim Ferris