Disability art and culture

This article suggests a turn to disabled people’s formations of disability culture, as expressed in the arts, for new ways to imagine community integration. As I look to the arts, I examine not only the representations disabled artists create, but the art-making and arts-presenting processes themsel...

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Autore principale: Sandahl, Carrie
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Alter 2025
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Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:This article suggests a turn to disabled people’s formations of disability culture, as expressed in the arts, for new ways to imagine community integration. As I look to the arts, I examine not only the representations disabled artists create, but the art-making and arts-presenting processes themselves. I illustrate this argument by analyzing innovations in the integration of people with disabilities in professional concert dance in two American companies: AXIS Dance Company and Kinetic Light.