Dance, Disability and Law

This edited collection is the first book to that focus on the intersection between dance, disability and law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, this volume considers the question of how we value, validate and speak about diversity in performance practice with a specific focus on the experience of differently-abled dance artists within the changing world of the arts in the UK. Dance, Disability and Law addresses the legal frameworks that support or otherwise the work of disabled dancers (including IPR, human rights and medical law) and explore factors that impact on their full participation, including those related to policy, arts funding, dance criticism and audience reception. By bringing together leading voices, this book makes an important contribution to several fields, and in particular the disciplines of dance, law, philosophical aesthetics, disability studies and spectatorship in performance.

This edited collection is the first book to that focus on the intersection between dance, disability and law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, this volume considers the question of how we value, validate and speak about diversity in performance practice with a specific focus on the experience of differently-abled dance artists within the changing world of the arts in the UK. Dance, Disability and Law addresses the legal frameworks that support or otherwise the work of disabled dancers (including IPR, human rights and medical law) and explore factors that impact on their full participation, including those related to policy, arts funding, dance criticism and audience reception. By bringing together leading voices, this book makes an important contribution to several fields, and in particular the disciplines of dance, law, philosophical aesthetics, disability studies and spectatorship in performance.

PrefaceIntroductionSection I: Disability, Dance and Critical FrameworksDisabled Dance: Barriers to Proper Inclusion within Our Cultural MilieuCultural Heritage and the Unseen CommunityAn Analysis of Reporting and Monitoring in Relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Right to Participation in Cultural Life and Intellectual PropertyA Dance of Difference: The Tripartite Model of Disability and the Cultural Heritage of DanceIn a Different Light? Broadening the Bioethics Perspective through DanceInterruptions 1-3Section II: Disability, Dance and the Demands of a New AestheticA Wondering (in Three Parts)A New Foundation: Physical Integrity, Disabled Dance and Cultural HeritageDisability and Dance: The Disabled Sublime or Joyful Encounters?Moving Towards a New Aesthetic: Dance and DisabilityWhat We Can Do with Choreography, and What Choreography Can Do with UsDancing Identity: The Journey from Freak to Hero and BeyondDance Disability and Aesthetics: A Changing DiscourseInterruptions 4-6Section III: Disability, Dance and Audience EngagementThe (Disabled) Artist Is PresentDisability, Disabled Dance Audiences and the Dilemma of Neuroaesthetic Approaches to Perception and InterpretationFinding It When You Get ThereInterruptions 7-9Policy Brief for Venues: Providing Space. Obligations and Approaches to Dancers with Different BodiesPosition Brief for Dancers. Policy Brief: Asserting CopyrightPolicy Brief: For DancersBlog Posts from Resilience and InclusionInterruptions 10-12Annex 1: Blog PostingsAnnex 2: Policy BriefsNotes on ContributorsIndex